From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Edo0n-0006Zj-6S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:09:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAKC8iOS013295; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:08:44 GMT Received: from aa001msg.fastwebnet.it (213-140-2-68.ip.fastwebnet.it [213.140.2.68]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAKC4pj6032604 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:04:51 GMT Received: from ms003msg.fastwebnet.it (10.31.41.45) by aa001msg.fastwebnet.it (7.2.069.1) id 438013B600014CC4 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 13:04:52 +0100 Received: from [1.36.68.35] (1.36.68.35) by ms003msg.fastwebnet.it (7.2.069.1) id 437CB9380060EDF6 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 13:04:51 +0100 From: Francesco Talamona To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: root password gremlin Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 13:04:51 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <20051117203328.73680.qmail@web25601.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <437F4072.70604@buanzo.com.ar> <43805D8F.8070009@mid.email-server.info> In-Reply-To: <43805D8F.8070009@mid.email-server.info> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511201304.51193.ti.liame@email.it> X-Archives-Salt: 18b5d88e-f807-40de-a8ff-339d61bd7614 X-Archives-Hash: 5b496cebf7f082848f4ed59036003352 On Sunday 20 November 2005 12:27, Alexander Skwar wrote: > What kind of nonsense is that? I suppose, that you'd find > it appropriate to use LDAP for a 1 user machine? Sorry, > but that's absolute bullshit. I don't think it's a good example: you can set up a Samba box, with a LDAP backend with just 2 or 3 *unix* (administrative) users and hundreds user into LDAP database. Nscd and PAM do the rest of "collage". So PAM can be of much use for a "few user" machine (ok, acting as a server...). That said I'm quite neutral about PAM, maybe it's just overkill for a desktop, maybe it's simply too complex to get rid of it for a standard user... Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.12-gentoo-r9, Compiled #2 Wed Aug 24 18:43:16 CEST 2005 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4325.37 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list