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| Eric Alata wrote: >Hi, > >I thank you for your answers. >Having discussed with Matthieu Herrb and having read these messages, >I think that the ideas to propose a "BSD licensed set of ldap client >libraries" and a system like nsswitch seem good. > >With regard to the implementation, I have a question. >Isn't nsswitch more general than pam? nsswitch may be used to >get users' informations when performing an ls? It allows us >to have automount with ldap? > > > I'd love to see everything stuck in PAM at some point, in every flavor of Unix - but I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon. Perhaps I've not looked carefully enough, but I've never seen a PAM entry for ls or chown in Solaris, Irix, Linux, or any of the BSDs. I understand the purpose of nsswitch, but it seems like PAM is taking on more roles and I think pam is a better choice for the long run. Having all the user related tools optionally aware of PAM would be pretty handy. cheers, Nicholas >Thanks, >Eric |