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Re: How exactly does PAM figure into things? Was: Alternatives to LDAP

To: ichbin@shadlen.org
Subject: Re: How exactly does PAM figure into things? Was: Alternatives to LDAP
From: Luke Howard <lukeh@PADL.COM>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 16:20:26 +1000
Cc: jcllings@tsunamicomm.net, dan@devonit.com, OpenLDAP-software@OpenLDAP.org
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> > Actually, OS X login uses PAM (in 10.2).
>
>Yea! This is great news. (I don't have my hands on 10.2 yet.)

Right, it hasn't been released, but the PAM code is in Darwin so I can
talk about it. Without getting too off-topic here, there is pretty much a
single PAM module (pam_securityserver) which talks to the SecurityServer
daemon. That then talks to the DirectoryServices daemon, which finally
does the authentication against LDAP or NetInfo (or whatever). I believe
the first two communications occur over Mach IPC.

-- Luke

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References:
- Alternatives to LDAP
  - From: Caylan Van Larson <caylan@cs.und.edu>
- Re: Alternatives to LDAP
  - From: Dan Melomedman <dan@devonit.com>
- Re: Alternatives to LDAP
  - From: David Wright <ichbin@shadlen.org>
- Re: Alternatives to LDAP
  - From: Dan Melomedman <dan@devonit.com>
- How exactly does PAM figure into things? Was: Alternatives to LDAP
  - From: Jim C <jcllings@tsunamicomm.net>
- Re: How exactly does PAM figure into things? Was: Alternatives to LDAP
  - From: David Wright <ichbin@shadlen.org>
- Re: How exactly does PAM figure into things? Was: Alternatives to LDAP
  - From: Luke Howard <lukeh@PADL.COM>
- Re: How exactly does PAM figure into things? Was: Alternatives to LDAP
  - From: David Wright <ichbin@shadlen.org>

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