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From: | Brian Murphy |
Subject: | Re: PAM authentication patch - v2 |
Date: | Thu, 17 Jul 2003 22:07:08 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529 |
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 businessof 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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