[Threading intentionally broken.] On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 01:16:25AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "Jacques A. Vidrine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"