[PAM-NTDOM] using pam_ntdom for ftp authentication
Tim Potter
tpot at linuxcare.com.au
Thu Jun 15 00:10:08 GMT 2000
Peter Samuelson writes:
> [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.
There's also the issue of the pam_ntdom module being GPL which
means that technically any program linking (i.e actually using
it) also needs to be GPL. )-:
Tim.
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