On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Richard Ford wrote:

> Is it feasibly possible to remove all user account authentication from the
> shadow file system and put it into LDAP or authenticate against MySQL using
> say PAM.

I imagine so.

> Would that not make user and permission handling =much= easier?

You'd have to explain why you think that. I think that it would be pretty
close to equivalent.

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