Hi,

On Fri, Feb 16, Rick Goyette wrote:

> Is this part of the current pam distribution?

No, it is not, because it is to glibc specific and not portable. So
I never made the try to get it into the Linux-PAM source tree.
But you can find it on ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kukuk/pam/pam_unix2

  Thorsten

>
> >On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 01:11:24PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> >> So all in all, it's better to use pam_unix than pam_pwdb in most cases
> >> (assuming you have a recent version of Linux-PAM).
> >
> >>From a vendor's perspective, pam_pwdb has one huge advantage which is
> >that it tries to detect where an account resides (passwd, shadow, nis).
> >AFAICT, with pam_unix you have to define this manually in the config file,
> >and there's no mixing of local and NIS accounts as with NIS compat
> >mode (the +::::: hack).
> >
> >pam_unix2 (by Torsten Kukuk) is actually much better because it emulates
> >the NSS search logic to detect where an account comes from, and uses
> >the appropriate mechanism to change it (the down side of it is that
> >you have to patch it for every new NSS flavor, but that's a different
> >story).
> >
> >Olaf
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