On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 02:29:24AM -0700, David Wright wrote: > It's true, there isn't a need, meaning Cyrus could have been designed to > use PAM directly as a security layer and not used SASL.
Huh? PAM is not a security layer. It is an API designed for local authentication only. On the other hand, SASL is a _protocol_ designed for remote client-server authentication, encryption and integrity protection. There is _no_ relation between SASL and PAM. Of course you can use PAM to implement the PLAIN SASL authentication method, and it is also possible that some PAM module might use SASL to talk to a remote authentication service, but these are implementation details. Gabor -- Gabor Gombas Eotvos Lorand University E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hungary
