Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 14:18:43 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) Cc: terry@lambert.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getty patches Message-ID: <199702030348.OAA02656@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <19970203140724.QM50066@usn.blaze.net.au> from David Nugent at "Feb 3, 97 02:07:24 pm"
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David Nugent stands accused of saying: > > > I'm not aware that the current login.conf code is capable of running > > the commercial authenticators... I'd be happy to be corrected. > > You're quite correct. The reason that authentication is not > available is lack of information, pure and simple. I'm still > waiting for information from either/both sef and BSDI on it, > and how the API is intended to work. There are quite a few > ambiguities to resolve. Currently login(1) includes the > relevant code to support them, but it is not compiled in. I am _particularly_ interested in this, as I have a couple of (paying) ISP customers who very much want to integrate user logins to BSD machines with their radius authentication environment. At the moment, the only path I could see that offered some solution was the Linux/Sun 'PAM' (pluggable auth modules) stuff, which looks horribly ragged from here. If there's some sort of alternative, I'd really like to know about it. (The results of this work would be free to be integrated into the tree, yes.) > David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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