On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 08:13:12AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 10:23:24 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen > <pere@hungry.com> wrote: > >[Steve Langasek] > >> This seems like an opportune time for someone to write a config > >> interface for /etc/pam.d/common-*, so that we have a generally > >> useful means of enabling other PAM modules as well. > >Good idea. We need a better way to enable LDAP and NIS authentication > >then to tell every admin to edit the files themselves. > If so, we need an adduser interface which properly handles LDAP and > NIS. This is something that our current adduser does not do, and the > corresponding bugs are open for many years. That doesn't really follow; the principle need for the adduser tool in such environments is adduser --system, which one typically wants to have operating on the local passwd database and *not* on LDAP or NIS directories. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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