Date: 21 Feb 2000 13:20:52 +0100 From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai=?iso-8859-1?q?_Gro=DFjohann?=) To: current@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crypto progress! (And a Biiiig TODO list) Message-ID: <vafya8eoifv.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> In-Reply-To: Paul Richards's message of "Mon, 21 Feb 2000 11:29:48 %2B0000" References: <20000218062947.B0DDE1CD9@overcee.netplex.com.au> <200002180743.JAA26529@gratis.grondar.za> <38B121AC.B2F0E2E3@originative.co.uk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> writes: > The daemon approach actually has benfits that I'm keen on that aren't > related to security. A single point of access to the data means that the > backend can be changed so that passwords can be in a different file or a > database, without having to worry about rebuilding all the binaries. You > could even split users across different back end systems. This sounds like PAM, doesn't it? kai -- ~/.signature: No such file or directory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?vafya8eoifv.fsf>