Re: FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
sr1@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (Sven Rudolph) wrote on 28.03.96 in <199603281908.UAA26935@irz101.inf.tu-dresden.de>:
> * shadow passwords ( ftp://ftp.ists.pwr.wroc.pl/pub/linux/shadow/ )
> (Previous versions didn't have a free-enough license, so Debian cannot use
> these.)
> (PAM (see above) is an alternative approach)
Not quite. PAM is an effort to have only one interface for all possible
authentification methods, including the standard unix stuff, shadow
passwords, S/key, Kerberos, what-have-you.
It's a library which uses a config file to load authentification drivers
on-the-fly.
MfG Kai
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