Re: PAM support in Samba

[Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>]

On Wed, 22 Oct 1997 jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl wrote:

[snip]
> I suggested PAM support as a goal for 2.0; as such it has gone into Brian C.
> White's "Upcoming Debian Releases" document (
> http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9709/msg00042.html
> is there a permanent web location??).
> 
> I like the idea of PAM a lot: moving all authentication-related code into
> libraries. It makes it easier for a system administrator to implement an
> authentication policy. Providing PAM support can be a major operation, and I
> admit I haven't looked into the technical issues yet. Given that Red Hat has
> been PAMified for some time now, I think that PAM is mature enough. If we
> move to PAM, this might be an opportunity for integrating PAM support
> upstream (I don't have the impression that Red Hat worked on this).
> 
> > Perhaps this thread should move to debian-policy?
> 
> Maybe. I'd like to see if there is some concencus on PAM; if there is, it
> should go into the policy.

So how do people think about PAM? Should we use it? If so, it would be
nice if someone could provide me with a proposal for a policy change.


Thanks,

Chris

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