Subject: Re: Centralized User and Password Management
To: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/25/2004 16:52:39
[ On Wednesday, November 24, 2004 at 10:43:29 (-0600), Tillman Hodgson wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Centralized User and Password Management
>
> If NetBSD /did/ support PAM, that makes many Kerberos things much
> easier (although using "native" Kerberos services instead is vastly
> preferred).

That's a very false economy.  IIUC Kerberos is already integrated into
everything that needs it (though for add-on software there may be
special compile-time configuration needd) and PAM would only open more
holes.

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