Hi, On Fri, Feb 16, Rick Goyette wrote: > Is this part of the current pam distribution? No, it is not, because it is to glibc specific and not portable. So I never made the try to get it into the Linux-PAM source tree. But you can find it on ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kukuk/pam/pam_unix2 Thorsten > > >On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 01:11:24PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> So all in all, it's better to use pam_unix than pam_pwdb in most cases > >> (assuming you have a recent version of Linux-PAM). > > > >>From a vendor's perspective, pam_pwdb has one huge advantage which is > >that it tries to detect where an account resides (passwd, shadow, nis). > >AFAICT, with pam_unix you have to define this manually in the config file, > >and there's no mixing of local and NIS accounts as with NIS compat > >mode (the +::::: hack). > > > >pam_unix2 (by Torsten Kukuk) is actually much better because it emulates > >the NSS search logic to detect where an account comes from, and uses > >the appropriate mechanism to change it (the down side of it is that > >you have to patch it for every new NSS flavor, but that's a different > >story). > > > >Olaf > >-- > >Olaf Kirch | --- o --- Nous sommes du soleil we love when we play > >okir@monad.swb.de | / | \ sol.dhoop.naytheet.ah kin.ir.samse.qurax > >okir@caldera.de +-------------------- Why Not?! ----------------------- > > UNIX, n.: Spanish manufacturer of fire extinguishers. > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >Pam-list@redhat.com > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list > > -- > R. J. Goyette > Argonne National Laboratory > rjgoyette@anl.gov > (630) 252-4328 > > http://www.pns.anl.gov > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pam-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
