libpwdb & pam_pwdb mistake? (fwd)

[Grzegorz Stanislawski]

Witam.
 Mam juz odpowiedz Morgana na moj problem z pwdb ;-)))) 

Grzegorz Stanislawski
Open-Net / PKFL

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 09:10:45 -0700
From: Andrew Morgan <morgan w transmeta.com>
To: Cristian Gafton <gafton w redhat.com>
Cc: Grzegorz Stanislawski <stangrze w open.net.pl>
Subject: Re: libpwdb & pam_pwdb mistake?


Cristian, perhaps you would like to comment on this?

Thanks

Andrew

Grzegorz Stanislawski writes:
> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 16:22:58 +0200 (EEST)
> From: Grzegorz Stanislawski <stangrze w open.net.pl>
> To: Andrew Morgan <morgan w transmeta.com>
> Subject: libpwdb & pam_pwdb mistake?
> Reply-To: Grzegorz Stanislawski <stangrze w open.net.pl>
> 
> Hi.
>  I have noticed that when one change all "unix+shadow" in /etc/pwdb.conf
> to "shadow+unix" there is no need to have option "shadow" in pam_pwdb
> entries in /etc/pam.d. (passwords are read from and written to
> /etc/shadow). 
>  I'm not sure this is a feature or mistake. I'd like to know your opinion
> about this.
> 
> As far as I understand this option in pam_pwdb, it forces
> pwdb to store passwd in shadow database owerriding default one as listed
> in pwdb.conf. This is not good, since user database can be diffrent (as I
> mailed You earlier, i'm writing postgresql module for pwdb)
> Again as far as i understand pwdb, it stores any user entry in first
> database which can accept it. when "shadow" is first in pwdb.conf, this is
> main database for passwdords.
>    
>  We are now working on national (Polish) linux distribution and we'd like
> to set pwdb as standard interface to user databases. (all programs are
> going to be rebuild to use pwdb)
> 
> Grzegorz Stanislawski
> Open-Net / PKFL
> 
> 
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