Re: Status of my submissions
At 11:01 +0100 2000-01-03, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>Shadow is an ad hoc package. What we really want to use is
>PAM/passwddb.
shadow is now fully PAM-enabled thanks to its present Debian maintainer
(the only reason upstream doesn't have the patches merged is because Marek
hasn't had time to make a new release yet).
[ Later, it's clarified that you meant "pwdb" instead of "passwddb" ]
pwdb is a bad idea for a couple of reasons, first of all it duplicates the
functionality of NSS, a mechanism which works fine and does not need to be
bypassed. Second, pam_unix does everything pam_pwdb does without bypassing
NSS.
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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