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Re: PAM authentication patch - v2


From: Brian Murphy
Subject: Re: PAM authentication patch - v2
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 22:07:08 +0200
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Matt Doar wrote:

If your etc/nsswitch.conf file has this line:

passwd:     files nis

then the authentication looks in your /etc/passwd and shadow files
before using NIS. If I have a userid defined locally on the machine and
also defined using NIS, the authentication mechanism fails. If I am
authenticating a user who is only defined in NIS, everything is fine.

~Matt

On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 11:11, Brian Murphy wrote:
Hi Matt,
I didn't really understand your problem with NIS and the PAM patch.
Was it that you couldn't get CVS to authenticate via NIS?

/Brian



So this has nothing to do with the patch.
With regard to debugging PAM authentication I think the PAM documentation
must have the answers - the whole purpose of PAM is to separate the business
of authentication from the application itself. A basic configuration is described in the documentation - advanced issues must be the domain of PAM documentation
otherwise the advantage of PAM is lost.

/Brian





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