Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 10:00:28 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAM, S/Key and authentication schemes. Message-ID: <3B17CA2C.D68B9583@mindspring.com> References: <89661.990794824@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> <3B14B109.C08F1970@mindspring.com> <20010530074757.A53937@spawn.nectar.com>
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"Jacques A. Vidrine" wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:36:25AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > We talked to the Sun guy who came up with PAM at the last > > FreeBSD user's group meeting, in Foster City, CA, last > > month. > > > > The PAM API, as it currently sits, is incapable of correctly > > supporting Kerberos, and several other authentication schemes. > > > > Apparently, the only way to fix this is to change the PAM API. > > Hey, I'm glad that has sunk in. We debated about this back in February > (thread in this forum containing Message-ID > <20010217190800.A38833@spawn.nectar.com>). Knowing about the problem, and actually revising the API to deal with it, are two very different things, unfortuantely. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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