Re: Shadow question
chrish@libertel.montreal.qc.ca (Christian Hudon) wrote on 13.04.96 in <Pine.SUN.3.91.960413001253.928A-100000@thym.remm.uqam.ca>:
> On Fri, 12 Apr 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>
> > Anybody know the status of the much-talked about libpam? It is a
Code exists, but doesn't seem to be quite ready yet. It seems exchange
with Sun on interface details works quite good.
> It if makes it possible to install both shadow passwords *and* S/key
> painlessly, then I for one would really like having Debian use it.
It does, and so do I :-)
> PS Anyone knows of a "libpam for Linux" homepage or something like that?
> I'm curious.
I found this on the PAM mailing list:
>From: morgan@physics.ucla.edu (Andrew Morgan)
>Subject: Linux-PAM-0.31
>
>This is to say that Linux-PAM-0.31 is availible from
>
> http://gluon.physics.ucla.edu/~morgan/pam
>
>here is a list of the things that have been changed:
>
>* (Alex and Marek) please note I have altered _pam_auth_unix a little, to
> make it get the passwords with the "proper method" (and also fixed
> it to not have as many compiler warnings)
>* updated the conf/pam.conf file
>* added new example application examples/xsh.c (like blank but invokes
> /bin/sh)
>* Marc's patches for examples/blank.c (and AGM's too)
>* fixed stacking of modules in libpam/pam_handlers.c
>* fixed RESETing in libpam/pam_item.c
>* added new module modules/pam_filter/ to demonstrate the possibility
> of inserting an arbitrary filter between the terminal and the
> application that could do customized encryption or logging
> etc... (see use of bin/xsh as defined in conf/pam.conf)
>
>Hope it works for you!
>
>Regards
>
>Andrew
MfG Kai
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