Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 15:11:15 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD Message-ID: <XFMail.990720151115.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <19990720144919.B426@fisicc-ufm.edu>
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Oscar Bonilla wrote: > > ok, so this clarifies a lot of things... let's get rid of /etc/auth.conf > and go with /etc/pam.conf for the authentication and /etc/nsswitch.conf > for the info on where to obtain the databases from. That seems reasonable to me. PAM actually is designed to serve four separate but related functions. We're only using the authentication function currently. For an overview of PAM, see PAM(8) in the manual pages. There is also a spec in "src/contrib/libpam/doc/specs/rfc86.0.txt". John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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