Re: porting PAM

On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 10:34 PM, Damien Miller wrote:

> Why does OpenBSD "need" PAM? OpenBSD already has a system which

Well, maybe it doesn't need PAM. But it needs (or, more accurately, people like me need for it) to authenticate users against LDAP. The Solaris, Linux and OS X boxes are all doing it (Solaris being a big pain in the ass, BTW) but it's supported.

And no, don't bother posting the LDAP via Radius kluge again. I've seen it.

> I'd love to see someone port the BSD auth API to other platforms - it

Or, more importantly, make the BSD auth API a more useful alternative by implementing popular centralized authentication methods with it.

And, still, without the nsswitch it's only one component of centralized logins. One of the biggest pieces, nsswitch, is missing all together. Received on Thu May 29 12:00:51 2003