On Friday 11 July 2008 02:03:04 Tim Judd wrote:
> I can't quote easily what the difference
> between NSS and PAM is
PAM is a module that abstracts authentication, it does not authenticate
itself, yet asks "providers" if the information passed to it is correct and
then relays this to the application or tries a different method if this is
allowed.
NSS is an abstraction of cryptographic protocols, applied to a network. In
this schema, it is a transport provider:
------- Application ------- ----- Network -----
/ \ / \
+---------------+ +-----+ +-----+ +---------------+
+ User/password | <---> | PAM | <---> | NSS | <---> | LDAP database +
+---------------+ +-----+ +-----+ +---------------+
\ /
\______Authentication______/
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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