"Jacques A. Vidrine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:00:08AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: >> Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > How much do you intend to use NSS for? I mean, what's the point of >> > adopting this cool infrastructure if all you are going to do with it >> > is make a better PAM out of it? >> >> The important thing is that NSS allows to plug modules such as LDAP or >> PostgreSQL for user base management. PAM is only halfway there and >> doesn't give libc et al. a notion of a user or group context (in spite >> of its "account" context), NSS does. One might discuss if PAM is really >> needed with NSS in place, but it's hard to think of a system without >> NSS and removing PAM now doesn't look right. > > NSS and PAM do not overlap.
I wonder how PAM gets "system" authentication information for pam_pwdb or pam_unix or how it's called today and on the pertinent system if not through NSS. Reimplementation of these "passwd/shadow/whatever" mechanisms? -- Matthias Andree Encrypt your mail: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
