Re: [gentoo-user] Re: root password gremlin

[Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>]

Francesco Talamona schrieb:
> 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".

Yes, for such a scenario, I'd of course use PAM as some
sort of layer - no doubt at all!

> So PAM can be of much use for a "few user" machine (ok, acting as a 
> server...).

We're talking about a non-server machine:

| What do you need PAM for, when there's basically just one
| (human) user on the system and the system acts as a "consumer"
| (ie. no servers)? Why add the complexity of PAM? Where's
| the gain - in *THAT* scenario?

See what's in the 2nd ()?

> 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...

No, it's not too complex to get rid off - if you leave it away
from the beginning. I totally agree, that it's hard to
convert a non-PAM system to PAM - and the other way is also
hard.

Alexander Skwar
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