Re: pam.conf(5) and pam(8)

From: Christian Brueffer <chris_at_unixpages.org>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 16:55:21 +0200
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:17:56PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> Hi Ulrich,
> 
> > Shameless plug:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=docs/63084
> 
> Thanks for the pointer, I still don't have the habit to check PRs,
> unfortunately.  I'll whip myself for this.
> 
> However I don't understand why the manpage disappeared between RELENG_4
> and its successors.  The pam(8) manpage (as well as pam.conf(5) one,
> since it links to the same one) belongs to libpam, which is an import
> of Linux-PAM, if I understand correctly.  The later has been removed
> from HEAD by des_at_ in 2002 : what is replacing it ATM ?
> Watching at RELENG_4's pam.conf(5) manpage revealed that it seems to
> still be in conformity with the current pam.conf(5) format, although
> not written with the BSD art.  Wouldn't it be possible to use this one ?
> 

NetBSD has both pam.conf(5) and pam(8) that fit with OpenPAM FreeBSD
uses (NetBSD recently imported OpenPAM as well).  I'll import these
in the next couple of days.

- Christian

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