On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:56:01 -0400 Michael Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> On Monday, 25 September 2006, at 14:54:36 (+0900), > Jerome Pinot wrote: > > > That's not only for *BSD, some Linux distro like Slackware doesn't > > use PAM. > > Ah, Slackware... The most advanced Linux technology 1995 has to > offer. > > > Is there any workaround (or a small patch to get back the personal > > password)? > > I would love to hear a justification for not using PAM. > > A patch to reinstate the personal password might be accepted so long > as it correctly employed UNIX permissions to keep the password > private. yup - separate file, one-way hash (sha1/md5) and permissions on the file are guaranteed to be readable for the owner only. i considered doing this - but decided it was just easier to disable it all and leave it all up to pam and your users password (as a personal password seemed to confuse people if it wasn't their own and that they had to set yet another password) > Michael > > -- > Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > "I don't mind the sun sometimes, the images it shows. I can taste > you on my lips and smell you in my clothes. Cinnamon-and-sugary and > softly-spoken lies. You never know just how you look through other > people's eyes." -- Butthole Surfers, "Pepper" > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
