[OpenAFS] how to integrate auth with Linux system

Charles Clancy security@xauth.net
Fri, 8 Feb 2002 00:08:31 -0600 (CST)


> >> I donot know when the cvs auth a user, it base on /etc/passwd,
> >> /etc/shadow or base on PAM login?
> >
> >When I last heard, CVS was moving toward PAM.
>
> Where did you hear that?  It's supported Kerberos 5 via GSSAPI (gserver)
> for years, AFAIK.

I had someone who was going to get a CVS<->AFS server running for me last
year.  At the time, he said there was a patch floating around that would
do PAM.  I don't know the details -- I've never setup CVS.  A quick search
on google turned up a mailing list thread from April 2000:

http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/thread.php3?subject=pam+patch&list=382

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