Re: LDAP authentication with PAM
On 13 Apr 2001, Brian May wrote:
> >> Why do gdm and imap have password specified in
> >> /etc/pam.d/gdm,imap? (I would be surprised if imap supported
> >> changing the password, not sure about gdm). These are the only
> >> files that didn't have entries for cracklib commented
> >> out. Perhaps I should add them in, seeing as I have enabled
> >> cracklib everywhere else. I don't like this duplication of
> >> information much though.
>
> Sami> i actually don't know why imap would have password
> Sami> entry. IMAP as protocol does not to my knowledge allow
> Sami> changing passwords.. maintainer mistake?
>
> Perhaps. In any case, I will probably delete the imap entry anyway,
> and make it use the other entry.
>
Yikes, i almost didn't read this. Yes imapd doesn't need the password
entry. I'll remove it in my next upload.
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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
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