[OpenAFS-devel] aklog on MacOS X was Re: Service Ticket Questions

Luke Howard lukeh@padl.com
Sun, 19 Mar 2006 02:56:21 +1100


>Now I'm not saying this is the best approach.  My thinking was that a  
>PAM module would be useful for other Unix platforms as well, but  
>doesn't really fit in so nicely in Mac OS X.  The KFM might be a  
>little cleaner, though Mac OS X specific.  But it might be possible  
>to get loginwindow to do PAM directly, so my loginwindow_pam_helper  
>wouldn't be needed anymore, and then the PAM module might fit in  
>better (of course, I'm not on the loginwindow team, so I can't say  
>they will make this change).

Heh, I tried to get Apple to do PAM in loginwindow years ago back no
luck.

You might find pam_loginwindow floating around Apple's CVS servers
(seems to have disappeared from Darwin).

-- Luke

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