On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 12:44, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 08:10:30AM -0600, Stephen Smoogen wrote: > > The standard way I have seen it implemented on other versions of Linux > > (here and other large organizations) is that the central authentication > > is used first in the pam stack and if it fails/isnt available you get > > authorized against the local password db which if it works lets you in. > > "Other versions" including Red Hat Linux up until it suddenly stopped > working circa version 7.3. > > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55193> I just posted this on that bugzilla: In September 2002 I went to a AUUG conference and listened to a talk "Polythene PAM ain't what she used to be". This problem was described then. Nalin is mentioned in the paper. http://meltin.net/people/martin/publications/polythenepam.pdf I don't know if the workaround in the paper solves the problem. -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
