[PAM-NTDOM] using pam_ntdom for ftp authentication

Peter Samuelson peter at cadcamlab.org
Wed Jun 14 21:12:59 GMT 2000


[Michael Tokarev <mjt at tls.msk.ru>]
> Hey, but what's the purpose of pam_converse functions!?  Pam modules
> should _never_ use stdin/stdout/etc, but deal with conversion
> functions only.

True.  The difficulty is that pam_ntdom uses library files from Samba.
Those libraries were not specifically designed for use with PAM.

The "stdout/stderr is ok to use" assumption is still a bad one, for any
library.  It's just that, as someone already said, it didn't cause a
problem back when *only* Samba was using it.

Peter


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