From: Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net>
To: help-gnats@gnu.org
Subject: Re: PAM Authentication Patch
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040620175849.GC13514@wookimus.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040620173908.GB13514@wookimus.net>
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Chad Walstrom wrote:
> We should make it abundantly clear in the documentation that use of
> PAM authentication should be thoroughly protected. If such measures
> cannot be taken, don't enable PAM.
Additionally, we can't always assume that because something uses PAM,
it'll authentication against system accounts. There are dbm modules,
ldap modules, etc. that can be used for account management.
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Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net> http://www.wookimus.net/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-20 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-10 21:20 CVS, Documentation, TODO Lists, New Maintainer, and Stuff Chad C. Walstrom
2004-06-10 21:44 ` Chad C. Walstrom
2004-06-13 8:51 ` Mel Hatzis
2004-06-13 23:01 ` Andrew Gray
2004-06-11 22:28 ` Yngve Svendsen
2004-06-14 17:07 ` Pankaj K Garg
2004-06-14 17:16 ` Chad C. Walstrom
2004-06-20 17:39 ` PAM Authentication Patch Pankaj K Garg
[not found] ` <gargp@earthlink.net>
2004-06-20 17:59 ` Mark D. Baushke
2004-06-21 7:25 ` Chad Walstrom
2004-06-21 15:26 ` Chad Walstrom [this message]
[not found] ` <chewie@wookimus.net>
2004-06-21 15:34 ` Mark D. Baushke
2004-11-04 1:27 ` Preparing 4.1 Mark D. Baushke
2004-11-04 3:15 ` Chad Walstrom
2004-11-04 19:15 ` Chad Walstrom
2004-11-17 23:26 ` Chad Walstrom
2004-06-21 16:13 ` PAM Authentication Patch Chad Walstrom
2004-10-29 21:33 Preparing 4.1 Chad C. Walstrom
2004-10-31 14:03 ` Pankaj Garg
2004-11-01 19:09 ` Pankaj Garg
2004-11-03 22:39 ` Chad C. Walstrom
2004-11-03 22:46 ` Chad C. Walstrom
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