Is it safe to assume that it takes the same arguments as pam_unix? >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. > > > >_______________________________________________ > >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
