[Pam-mysql-general] Re: reading the pam_mysql source...

[Florian V. <flo...@un...>]

Thanks Andr=E9 for your reply - I hope you don't mind if I put parts of i=
t on this list!
Danke auch dir, Andreas!

[see below...]
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\|andre.correa@######### ha scrit als Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:04:49 -0200:
 |
 |Hi Florian, I've read your post to PAM-MySQL list and would like to
 |share some comment. Many months ago I was using PAM-MySQL for a project
 |and contacted the "author" to know what was going on with this project.
 |The project was inactive for almost 2 years. He told me he is out of
 |time.=20
[...]
 |The MD5 features were put in the code as a contributor's feature and,
 |for  what I know, have never being revised. Maybe, not even tested.
 |

MD5 is surly a good idea.
It could not have been tested the way it is in the CVS.

 |If you need to make a project for your BS, why don't you start a new
 |PAM-MySQL project? Or you can, at least, try to contact the author for
 |contributing  or  leading  the  project.  I know there are many people
 |using or in need for a good and reliable PAM module . Many of then woul=
d
 |like to contribute and help mantaining it.
 |

:-)  Hence - Our Universitys Sun/Linux sysadmin would like such a handy m=
od.

As a new prj.:
Yes, that was also our (sysadmin&me) idea. (Of course it'd be a GPL prj.)
I'd copy most of the code of the existing pam_mysql - mainly to have a st=
arting point.
But I don't think to put it as a SF-prj from beginning...
Because I don't know if it's a good idea to make a BSc prj a publically d=
eveloped one, I'll wait until summer to transfer it to SF (or similar).

If there would be plenty of oposition from this list readers, I'll manage=
 another solution...

Temporarly, I named the new project "pam_mysqlim" (IMproved - like vim :-=
)> )
and it is accessible by cvs (file names not changed yet) on:
  :pserver:ano...@se...:
[hosted by Linuxbourg, LUG Fribourg & env., CH]
module: pam_mysqlim

 |
 |Please let me know your thoughts.

Didn't I ?


 |On 25/01/03, Florian Verdet wrote:
 |FV> reading the pam_mysql source code, I found following:
[...]
 |FV> As project for my "Bachelor of Science in Computer Science", I'm su=
pposed to develop an improved pam_mysql module.
 |FV> (more functionalities like session, account mgmt, more db fields, e=
asy to change users passwd,... in the db (ev. GUI), etc.)
 |


kind regards,
sal=FCds,
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Florian Verdet
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