From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 22 16:11:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dargo.talarian.com (dargo.talarian.com [207.5.33.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C9A637B406 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 16:11:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Received: from moya.talarian.com (moya.talarian.com [10.4.10.8]) by dargo.talarian.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D239822B0B; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 16:09:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beast.talarian.com (beast.talarian.com [10.4.10.6]) by moya.talarian.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D3EA84; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 16:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from quack.kfu.com (localhost [::1]) by beast.talarian.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5MNBoP40963; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 16:11:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Message-ID: <3B33D0B6.4070001@quack.kfu.com> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 16:11:50 -0700 From: Nick Sayer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010613 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jneuffer@nscom.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User Authentication other than /etc/passwd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (btw: you probably mean /etc/master.passwd) Check /usr/ports/security/pam*. There are a bunch of PAM module ports that can be used for this sort of thing. Just recently I set up the mail server here to allow either a user's NIS password or their password for the NT domain to work for reading mail. That's the sort of thing that PAM can be very helpful for. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message