On Mon, Feb 19, Rick Goyette wrote:

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

No, it doesn't use the same arguments, or not all. But I never compared
them.

  Thorsten

>
> >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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