Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 16:42:08 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD authentication... Message-ID: <199710190712.QAA01175@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Oct 1997 10:29:58 -0400." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971018102700.27956A-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>
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> Is anyone working on supporting Kerberos V5 now that it is out, instead of > the kerb-4 eBones packge? This is in -current. > Is there any interest (should there be) to mooving to Pluggabl > Authentication Modules. (Since they are implimented as shared libraries, > that you link in as needed, would we need to rewrite ld.so a bit to ensure > that people couldn't set their LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and then run su to get > full root acces, sans password?) Modules are loaded explicitly, so this is not an issue. See my homepage (http://www.smith.net.au/~mike) for a port of a slightly older version of the Linux-PAM distribution to FreeBSD. There are a number of problems which need to be addressed before PAM can be taken seriously, but these really just require developer time. mike
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