Re: IDS on Linux - PAM and shaddowed passwords - Still problems?

On 10 Apr 2000, Ronald Cole wrote: >Andrej Falout <afalout@xtra.co.nz> writes: >> They where some problems with early IDS on Linux, if I remember >> correctly up to 7.3 UC7, that forced us to disable shadowed passwords >> (if not complete PAM, I don't remember, but PAM is part of Solaris, so >> it would be strange...). >> >> I was wondering if this is still the case, or we can install current >> version of IDS 2000 with PAM and shadowed passwords active. > >Someone said it was fixed, but I haven't checked it out myself. >Already bought 7.30 twice (once for RH5.2 and once for RH6.0) to find >out that PAM wasn't supported. I'm unwilling to shell out two bills >to repeat that mistake again (I've no reason to believe that the >porting engineer is *now* aware of the existance of PAM in Red Hat). > >Would be happy to be proven wrong, though! I am told that 9.20 works with shadow passwords and MD5 passwords unless NIS is used, and 9.21 will work with NIS (and shadow passwords and MD5 passwords). I also understand that in future, the testing will concentrate on these options (NIS vs no NIS, MD5 vs regular, shadow vs unshadowed) and other uses of PAM will be untested but should work OK. I'm not clear whether these will be fixed in any 7.30 versions, etc, but reading between the lines, the answer is probably No. -- Yours, Jonathan Leffler (Jonathan.Leffler@Informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix v1.00.PC1 -- http://www.perl.com/CPAN "I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it!"