From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 10 4:23:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from postman.lipetsk.ru (postman.lipetsk.ru [195.34.224.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40C5F37B66C for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 04:23:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lstu by relay.lipetsk.ru with UUCP id ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:23:05 +0400 Received: from corsair.stu.lipetsk.ru (root@corsair.lstu [192.168.15.51]) by maverick.stu.int (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA54978 for Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:14:25 +0400 (MSD) Received: from skynick (root@loopback [127.0.0.1]) by corsair.stu.lipetsk.ru (8.9.3/8.9.2) with SMTP id PAA94948 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:14:25 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from skynick@stu.lipetsk.su) Message-ID: <00bb01c032ab$3ee9ccc0$131fa8c0@skynick> From: "Nick A. Leuta" To: "FreeBSD-Security" References: Subject: Re: PAM help needed Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:13:32 +0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi! Max Khon wrote: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Richard Jones wrote: > > After walking through the FreeBSD sources I saw that: > > 1. none of the first group applications (except: login) has the support > > for PAM authentication (ifdefed). > > login is built with PAM by default. ftpd also has PAM support The same needed in sshd, su, lock etc... > > My questions are: > > a. Is any of my assumptions/conclusions wrong? > > b. Is there any work done on the subject to fix it? > > c. How stable is PAM on FreeBSD? > > d. Any known problems that you know from your experience? > I do not know of any problems with PAM under FreeBSD. > Seems that FreeBSD PAM library is taken without any > significant modifications from Linux PAM 0.65 distribution. Yes, it's true. But unlike FreeBSD, under Linux RH 6.x distribution all applications like login, passwd, su, vlock, xdm, xlock, xscreensaver (in /etc/pam.d also mentioned shutdown, xsaver...) using pam. ...Do FreeBSD's pam_* modules realize all known (auth, account, session, password) "module-types"? --- SkyNick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message