On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Solar Designer wrote: > > In trying to get the pam_cracklib module running on Solaris, > > Maybe you would try my pam_passwdqc as well? I don't think it will > work on Solaris "out of the box", but I think that the required > changes should be minimal. pam_passwdqc is meant to replace both > CrackLib and pam_cracklib. Nice idea. But, as with us all, my time is limited, and therefore any effort over and above what my employer wants (e.g. "pam_cracklib working on our local system") needs to be well and efficiently directed. (And I'm fortunate in having an employer agreeable to at least a small amount of such work ... hence being able to partake in this discussion!) So at this stage, I suspect it would be better to try to lay out, and agree, a roadmap for future development of "Linux-PAM" (or "Open-PAM"?). Then those of us with the enthusiasm for it can contribute our own work into it. An important technical role, I think, would be for someone to maintain (and accept or vet proxy changes for) a CVS tree on an active basis. To take your specific example (my trying your pam_passwdqc which "[you] don't think it will work on Solaris" anyway): wouldn't it be better: 1. to agree on usage conventions and possible coding commonality across modules; 2. an individual to implement that on modules in which he/she has a direct interest (e.g. "pam_cracklib" for me, "pam_passwdqc" for you); 3. THEN to try to cross-test each others modules. It might be marginally slower in getting off the ground, but from the "big picture" perspective wouldn't it be better? > (One thing that should definitely be added to meet your requirements > is use_authtok/*_first_pass, which is still on TODO.) (The only "TODO" file I found was in "modules/pam_pwdb/TODO", which didn't seem to mention that. But in my work on "pam_cracklib", I assumed that "use_authtok" was equivalent to "use_first_pass".) Hope that helps. -- : David Lee I.T. Service : : Systems Programmer Computer Centre : : University of Durham : : http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dcl0tdl South Road : : Durham : : Phone: +44 191 374 2882 U.K. :
