Re: NSS and PAM (was Re: NSS and PAM, dynamic vs. static)
why does /bin/sh need NSS support? Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: [Threading intentionally broken.] On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 01:16:25AM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: Jacques A. Vidrine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NSS and PAM do not overlap. They are complimentary and one cannot do the job of the other. That is a bug in NSS, PAM or both. Interesting. Explain, please. (Maybe privately or in another thread; hate to keep this'n going.) Perhaps you mean that it is a design flaw that two APIs are required. If so, I happen to disagree; I think that the separation of directory services and authentication is appropriate and necessary. (BTW, I think you mean that they are complementary, not complimentary, although it is certainly true that some implementations of NSS and PAM are free) heh, Yes, that's a spell-o from which spell-check could not save me. Cheers, -- --- I'm a UNIX Kinda Guy. My websites: http://slavepix.dyns.net/ http://jaxleather.dyns.net/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NSS and PAM (was Re: NSS and PAM, dynamic vs. static)
slave-mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: why does /bin/sh need NSS support? Because /bin/sh uses getpwnam(). We've been through this before. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NSS and PAM (was Re: NSS and PAM, dynamic vs. static)
slave-mike wrote: why does /bin/sh need NSS support? 1. If you are using pam_ldap, tilde expansion will be broken in /bin/sh without nss_ldap support. 2. Tilde expansion is required for POSIX conformance. It's not the strongest rationale. But it's something to consider. Richard Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NSS and PAM (was Re: NSS and PAM, dynamic vs. static)
[Threading intentionally broken.] On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 01:16:25AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Jacques A. Vidrine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NSS and PAM do not overlap. They are complimentary and one cannot do the job of the other. That is a bug in NSS, PAM or both. Interesting. Explain, please. (Maybe privately or in another thread; hate to keep this'n going.) Perhaps you mean that it is a design flaw that two APIs are required. If so, I happen to disagree; I think that the separation of directory services and authentication is appropriate and necessary. (BTW, I think you mean that they are complementary, not complimentary, although it is certainly true that some implementations of NSS and PAM are free) heh, Yes, that's a spell-o from which spell-check could not save me. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine NTT/Verio SME FreeBSD UNIX Heimdal [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
