On Mon, Feb 19, Rick Goyette wrote: > Is it safe to assume that it takes the same arguments as pam_unix? No, it doesn't use the same arguments, or not all. But I never compared them. Thorsten > > >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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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.
