Subject: Re: "BSD Authentication"
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: None <seebs@plethora.net>
List: current-users
Date: 11/23/1998 21:45:56
In message <Pine.NEB.4.05.9811232243320.26398-100000@duhnet.net>, Todd Vierling
 writes:
>login_pam, if I'm reading correctly about what BSD auth does, is *not*
>trivial.  PAM has a lot more than just authentication; read your local
>Solaris machine's pam(3) and pam.conf(4) man pages (and if you don't have a
>local Solaris machine, I'll forward you formatted copies).
>
>Implementing BSD-auth as a PAM module, on the other hand, would be ~trivial.

Okay, well, I admit, I know very little about PAM.

By the way, apart from the authentication scheme stuff, is there any
sentiment for or against implementing login classes?  I am very happy
with the features login classes offer, and I'd like to see those imported
either way.

-s