PNIAM 0.02 release (fwd)

[Grzegorz Stanislawski]

Witam.
 Chyba znalazlem lekarstwo na wszystkie kwasy zwiazane z pam'em i pwdb.
 Co prawda jest ono jeszcze nie calkiem wyprodukowane, ale chlopcy robia
wieksze postepy niz pam i pwdb razem wziete.
 W zwiazku z tym informuje ze zlewam robienie dalej pwdb i zabieram sie za
rozwoj tego. Mam rowniez nadzieje ze kiedys ten pakiet wejdzie w sklad
PLD, a zapewniam ze dobrze by bylo.
 
Grzegorz Stanislawski
Open-Net / PKFL

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 14:00:15 +0300
From: Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich <saw w msu.ru>
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Subject: PNIAM 0.02 release
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I and my University colleagues have prepared the second release of `Pluggable
Non Interactive Authentication Modules (PNIAM)'.  The idea of PNIAM has
grown from Linux-PAM project.  Like PAM, PNIAM fully implements the
pluggability of authentication modules.  However PNIAM has a completely
different API to avoid known PAM disadvantages.

The main PNIAM target is the incorporation of all authentication related
tasks (authentication itself, authorization, obtaining user identity
information, session accounting, and authentication information modification)
into a single entity.

At the moment all PNIAM parts except authentication information modification
are fully functional.  A module for authentication against
/etc/passwd (+/etc/shadow) and a simple application showing how to call
PNIAM functions are included into the distribution.

The tarball of the new release is located at
	ftp://ftp.nc.orc.ru/pub/Linux/pniam/pniam-0.02.tgz

The brief description of the PNIAM API is placed on
	http://www.msu.ru/pniam/pniam.html

Since the previous release the following things have been changed:
 - `runtest' script was written to make PNIAM testing more convenient;
 - the flag PNIAM_ITEM_ECHOOF_PROMPT was introduced to indicate
   that the answer to the prompt is to be typed with echo switched off;
 - the structure of PNIAM configuration directory was changed: a single
   multi-sectioned file was replaced by four separate config files;
 - comments in configuration files are allowed now;
 - some new functions were added to pniam_list_lib to ease item addition;
 - some functions of pniam_list_lib were renamed for the sake of name
   uniformity and understandability;
 - a few list management bugs were fixed in pniam_req_lib;
 - request destruction was modified to accept an additional parameter
   indicating if the destruction is regular or quiet (e.g. from a child
   process);  a flag with the same functionality is an important part
   of the modern PAM API;
 - test applications were improved;
 - documentation was improved and updated. 

Best wishes
					Andrey V.
					Savochkin

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