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Date:      Sat, 24 Jul 1999 16:17:50 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Keith Stevenson <k.stevenson@louisville.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <199907241417.QAA59106@gratis.grondar.za>

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Quoth "Keith Stevenson":
> (Mark Murray:  jump in here if I get this wrong)
> 
> The way I understand it, a PAM module (pam_unix?) would need to be able to
> look at the password hash and figure out which of the crypt functions to
> call.  Ideally, the PAM configuration would be able to specify which crypt
> functions are valid for the system.

I'm sure this could be done. I'm not sure that it is PAM's job. I'll
look at it.

> That said, one of the very attractive features of specifying the crypt
> function in the login class is the ability to assign different crypt
> algorithms on a user by user basis.

...or group...

M
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