Re: Passwords


Subject: Re: Passwords
From: Danny Sauer (dsauer@teleologic.net)
Date: Tue Nov 07 2000 - 17:45:00 EST


On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 04:26:37PM -0600, Marc D. Taylor wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I was looking around in various Readme's and FAQ's and I was wondering if
> there is a way for netatatlk to do the encrypted passwords in a manner like
> samba. That is to say one would have another master password file so that
> on a typical system with samba you would have at least 3 passwords files to
> maintain:
>
> /etc/passwd
> /usr/local/private/smbpasswd
> /usr/local/private/netatalkpasswd
>
> Does anyone out there have such a setup? How did you get there?

Isn't netatalk PAM-capable? If so, then it wouldn't be a big deal to specify
a different file to check against in the PAM config area... There's a pile of
HOWTOs involving PAM, so I won't go into that here unless asked to. :)

--Danny



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