PAM configuration

Pekka Savola pekkas at netcore.fi
Wed Dec 27 17:45:59 EST 2000


On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Damien Miller wrote:

> To stem the tide of support requests from people who don't read the
> INSTALL file when installing OpenSSH and then complain about password
> auth failing. I am considering the idea of automagically installing a
> PAM file into /etc/pam.d if it exists, PAM support is enabled and no
> such file already exists.
>
> I have a couple of questions:
>
> - How is PAM controlled on Solaris? Is there a pam.d directory or does
> it just use pam.conf? Do we need to install a control file for OpenSSH?
>
> - Does FreeBSD and other systems where PAM is a port or addon still
> use /etc/pam.d?

FreeBSD (as of 4.2) uses only /etc/pam.conf.

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Pekka Savola                    "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
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