On Tue, Jan 24, Praveen Kumar wrote: > Hi, > > I am experimenting an aplication to use pam for its authentication and > was able to succesfully implement the support for PAM. Now,i am slightly > confused by seeing different pam authentication modules. which one is > most preferred pam module for authentication, pam_unix_auth or > pam_unix2. Are there any differences between pam_unix_auth and > pam_unix2. I came to know that pam_unix_auth can not support blowfish > encryption for password. I could not find propoer information realted to > this. Is pam_unix2 is the later version of pam_unix_auth? Any > information in this regard will be greatly appreciated. pam_unix/pam_unix_* was developed in parallel to pam_unix2. There are some differences (like pam_unix2 supports blowfish if compiled with support for it and does not call external helper applications), but the difference is very small today. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@xxxxxxx SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 D-90409 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B _______________________________________________ Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
