From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 13 05:52:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA13727 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 05:52:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [194.77.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA13710; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 05:52:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id OAA20988; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 14:45:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12035; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 14:26:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andreas) Message-ID: <19980613142636.A5623@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 14:26:36 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Terry Lambert , The Hermit Hacker Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Radius login via getty References: <199806120311.UAA11298@usr09.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199806120311.UAA11298@usr09.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 03:10:59AM +0000 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 03:10:59AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > PAM has a number of known problems. > > > > > > Use SASL instead. Unlike PAM, thee is an RFC for SASL. > > > > Boy, does that ever make alot of sense...both Solaris and Linux > > are adopting PAM as their authentication schemes, and are designing > > various modules for it, but let's adopt something because, hey, it has an > > RFC? > > Check www.sun.com, "PAM-boy"; Sun's "adoption" of PAM is anecdotal. And Linux strikes again ;-) http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/datasheets/pam.html PAM is also available on other favors of UNIX, especially the CDE vendors. However, it was the team of volunteers from the Red Hat LINUX team that really got the maximum out of PAM! They have developed many more (25+) modules using PAM. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/modules.html Look, not bad. -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message