Is it safe to assume that it takes the same arguments as pam_unix?

>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).
>> >
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