On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 11:04:49AM -0500, Michael A. Dietz wrote: > I have noticed in my redhat 6.2 config that some pam config files in > /etc/pam.d reference pam_unix and others pam_pwdb. I can't seem to find > any documentation that makes a distinction between the two. They both > seem to do the same thing with the exception that pam_unix has a few more > features. > > Are pam_unix and pam_pwdb basically the same ? If not is one > always prefered over the other, or are there situations in which each one > does a better job ? Can you give me an example ? Use pam_unix. There was a time when pam_pwdb provide more features and worked better in many cases, but pam_unix was rewritten some time ago and is now a much better choice. > Lastly, per the previous post regarding pam_stack.so, it is included on my > redhat 6.2 system with updated rpm pam-0.72. For the errata release, I just built what we had in the tree. There are a couple of problems with that version of pam_stack that have since been fixed, but we haven't issued an update for it since I didn't expect anyone to use it (it's certainly not used by default on 6.2). Nalin
