> Debian 1.3 has shadow support built in, last I heard. It's just gone into > testing. I agree you have to install a few packages to make it work in 1.2, > but this is not a big deal.
Is there some philosophical problem with incorporating PAM as-is? It's already pretty well tested... I don't see why anyone would want to use non-shadowed passwords at all these days, at least with a machine connected to the internet. In addition to the INN trick, I see people trying the published web server and sendmail games too. > One thing you should consider is how much "systems" work you do on Linux. > For example, if you are building a lot of free software packages you might > consider packaging them for Debian and leveraging your own work into a > contribution that benefits lots of people. It has totaled a lot, updating about 8 machines piecmeal. However by now I think everything involved has been packaged already except the shadow-in-a-box combo which would be better done with PAM. Some things just need to be custom-compiled regardless, like apache with the modules you need locally (php/mod_perl, etc.) I'd have a problem doing packaging that moved locations from the place that 'make install' wants them to live anyway. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
