Re: Virtual User/Alternative Authorization Methods

[Jeff Bailey]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 08:48:51PM -0500, Alain Magloire wrote:

> > 1.  Support normal passwd/shadow & PAM authentication methods
> 
> pop4d/* has support for PAM, APOP, and SHADOW(done by Jakob).  since I dislike
> #ifdef's, I'm certainly open to new ways.
> 
> > 2.  Support alternative-location crypt'd/SHA passwd files for virtual
> > domains
> > 3.  (Eventually) support LDAP/MySQL since this is gaining in popularity for
> > virtual user systems
> 
> This sound really cool, but is there a way to do this by isolating the 
> specifics
> in functions.  If you ever looked at wu-ftpd, you know what I mean, it's a
> nightmare, a maze of ifdefs (Kerberos5, kerberos4, Opie, Pam, shadow,
> acl's, ...).  Doing this modular, will permit better integration to daemons
> (pop4d, imap4d, etc ..) and easy code maintenance.

Gee, Alain - Is your next project going to be "secureutils", or 
"loginutils"? =)

login = new LoginUser("krb5://address@hidden");

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