Re: [Mailman-Developers] Re: Future of pipermail?
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 00:01:29 -0500 (EST) Bill Bumgarner <bbum@codefab.com> wrote:
How about PAM-- pluggable authentication modules? It seems to have become relatively standard on LInux and BSD and provides a flexible and portable API that provides for versatile plug-n-play authentication across platforms.
Authentication data in the sense of identification (you know the UID and the password) is the simplest problem, and is probably so small as to be ignorable. The problem is not just UID/PW combos, but access rights, settings, configurations, meta data, etc.
Even if the implementation is not appropriate, the architecture is certainly interesting and will likely contain ideas that are pertinent to building such an authentication system as Chuq described.
True. As happens I'm more tempted by LDAP.
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At 11:45 PM -0800 11/23/00, J C Lawrence wrote:
True. As happens I'm more tempted by LDAP.
I tend to think that the mailman <-> authentication interface is going to be gnarly enough that it'll be a custom API. But I also think that having PAM and LDAP access to the data will also important to have for access in other ways -- PAM solves my problem for archive access in apache wonderfully, and either PAM or LDAP would make it easier to evolve my web forums into using a sitewide account/password setup, which is something I really want down the road.
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