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Re: PAM?!

At 3:22 PM -0500 4/22/04, Ben Staffin wrote:
* Paul Reilly <email@hidden> [2004-04-22 07:12] wibbled:
> I must have missed a memo somewhere...I JUST discovered that OS X now
> supports PAM! Yay!!
>
That would be excellent.
Do you have any references for that?

I do not have specific documentation, but notice the entry for
pam_securityserver.so in /etc/pam.d/login (etc). I believe this is what
puts the directoryservices modules (wrong terminology, but you know what
I'm talking about I am sure) in the stack for authentication.

-



pam is a client of security server. Not a source for authentication. ie loginwindow can not authorize logins based on the success of a pam module, but pam clients can authenticate against Mac OS X's authentication technology (security server, which might call lots of things).
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References: 
 >PAM?! (From: Romeyn Prescott <email@hidden>)
 >Re: PAM?! (From: Paul Reilly <email@hidden>)
 >Re: PAM?! (From: Ben Staffin <email@hidden>)



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