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Re: PAM?!

At 11:21 PM -0500 4/23/04, Albert Lunde wrote:
After talking with someone from Apple, the impression I got was that
PAM existed for a few legacy Unix services, but it wasn't used at all
by the GUI login window (that's pure Open Directory). Open Directory
takes over many of the roles played by PAM and NSS/NIS/NIS+/Active
Directory/Netinfo in various other OS flavors/versions.

legacy probably isn't the best word... I'd not call ssh, for instance, legacy. PAM is used to support authentication in clients that rely on libc (and hence lookupd, which has no explicite authentication support) for user lookups.

FWIW this type of thing is covered in my session at The Mac Networker's Retreat <http://www.macretreats.com/mnr/index.html> in pretty great depth.

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