On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 07:35:26PM +0200, Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > In the patch below I implemented the 'rootdir=directory' option for the > > > pam_unix module, by which one can define an alternate root directory when > > > looking up the files. So one can store alternate passwd, etc. files with > > > the user data on a cluster (shared) filesystem, without the need of > > > additional services running. > > But you haven't modified any of the code that uses getpwnam() or getspnam() > > to query the password database, so AFAICS this patch is useless since it > > only affects password updates. > It affects the realm of PAM - getpwnam/getspnam is covered by nss and that > is handled by a different package/patch. Therefore I haven't posted it to > this list. Ok, but nss has no per-service configuration files, so how do you intend to make NSS select a different password file in different contexts? Or is the intent to make all password operations on the system use the same alternate location that will be hard-coded in the NSS module? (In that case, I'm not sure there's much point to making it configurable in pam_unix if it has to be hard-coded in nss_files.) Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.debian.org/ _______________________________________________ Pam-list mailing list Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
