TODO list proposal for volunteers

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Gerald Carter wrote:

> "Christopher R. Hertel" wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm...  I guess my thinking is that this should be handled 
> > in an isolation layer, and not part of Samba itself.  I am 
> > (as usual) being a bit pedantic here but I think this kind 
> > of thing should be separable from Samba so that
> > it can work on its own, with other products, or 
> > with Samba.
> 
> Everyone here realizes that PAM support is currently a compile
> time option right?  Just checking.  
> 
> How do people feel about make PAM the equivalent of another 
> password backend?  Insulated behind a set of password API 
> callbacks of course.

That's the way I thought of it, I also think it would be really nice to
have a PAM-like layer for passdb with runtime loadable authentication
modules.

> 
> But I think we're jumping ahead of ourselves a little.  We 
> need to examine what we currently have in place.  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> CHeers, jerry
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