This one I love ... someone arguing a point that, if adhered to by one
piece of software, would make it totally incompatible with those other
pieces of software that you are tryign to interact with ...
pam_<anything> should not be setting the rules as to what is or is not
acceptable, the authentication server itself should be the one preventing
such from being created int he first place ....
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Nuno Silva wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if that's the problem but POSIX doesn't let you have users
> starting with a number. That's the diference between a user *name* and a
> uid - user id -, the uid always starts with a number!
>
> If pam_smb wants to be POSIX complaint this usernames won't be permitted :)
>
> Try to login as 0 (zero) and give as password the root password (user
> root must exist in the PDC/windows box).
>
> Just my $0.02,
> Nuno Silva
>
> Nick Ustinov wrote:
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> > is there anyone using pam_mysql for auth? it seems to not accept usernames
> > consisting only of numerals. Let's say there is a user 00100 and then when I
> > try to do auth it just dies and that's it. Can it possibly be because of
> > sprinf it is using has %s ? I am not into C much. Could anyone test that
> > please?
> >
> > Nick Ustinov
> >
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> >
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