[Threading intentionally broken.] On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 01:16:25AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar_at_FreeBSD.org> writes: > > NSS and PAM do not overlap. They are complimentary and one cannot do > > the job of the other. > > That is a bug in NSS, PAM or both. Interesting. Explain, please. (Maybe privately or in another thread; hate to keep this'n going.) Perhaps you mean that it is a design flaw that two APIs are required. If so, I happen to disagree; I think that the separation of directory services and authentication is appropriate and necessary. > (BTW, I think you mean that they are complementary, not complimentary, > although it is certainly true that some implementations of NSS and PAM > are free) heh, Yes, that's a spell-o from which spell-check could not save me. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine NTT/Verio SME FreeBSD UNIX Heimdal nectar_at_celabo.org jvidrine_at_verio.net nectar_at_freebsd.org nectar_at_kth.seReceived on Fri Nov 28 2003 - 16:13:36 UTC
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