On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Orlando Andico wrote:
..
> Errr... pam and nss are two different things. Jijo can't even get nss to
> work, something's screwed right there.
>
> Example: nss provides things like getpwuid() getpwnam() getspent()
> endspent() etc etc etc.
>
> PAM is just for authentication.
For example, do let sendmail deliver mail, all you need is NSS. Why?
because sendmail just checks for a local user, it doesn't need to
authenticate.
If you install a POP3 server that is NOT PAM-ified, you can work right
there, no need for PAM -- the POP3 server just does a getpwnam() and gets
back a result. So long as it doesn't try to grok files in /etc itself,
this will be transparent. I got qpopper working that way on Solaris.
PAM is ugly. I was subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a long time
because I was trying to write a PAM Oracle module. Lots of moaning and
groaning. =\
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