> > You can do this today using PAM authenication, but this is
> not always
> > possible. Notably it's never possible on Windows, and there are
> > several unix platforms/distros that don't support it
> without a lot of
> > work.
>
> Or you port PAM to Windows, and then everybody wins.

Well, for one that's going to be a *lot* more work. I'm not even sure
how many of the concepts would apply to win32, but then I don't really
know PAM...

It also would do nothing to help those who are on platforms or distros
that don't put PAM in there by default - it can still be a pain to put
it in there...

//Magnus

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On 10/10/05, Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net> wrote:
> > > You can do this today using PAM authenication, but this is
> > not always
> > > possible. Notably it's never possible on Windows, and there are
> > > several unix platforms/distros that don't support it
> > without a lot of
> > > work.
> >
> > Or you port PAM to Windows, and then everybody wins.
>
> Well, for one that's going to be a *lot* more work. I'm not even sure
> how many of the concepts would apply to win32, but then I don't really
> know PAM...
>

Most of the work has already been done:

http://pgina.xpasystems.com/

--
Mike Rylander
mrylander@gmail.com
GPLS -- PINES Development
Database Developer
http://open-ils.org

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