Re: [webmin-devel] Webmin PAM Authentication

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Hi Cl=E9ment,

That is a good patch .. but I'm worried about how it will perform
on non-Redhat RPM-based systems like SuSE and Mandrake, and even old
Redhat systems before they started using system-auth . Is it possible
to have a pam.d/webmin file that somehow falls back to the old behavior
in cases like these?

 - Jamie

On 9/Nov/2007 03:09 Cl=E9ment VERET wrote ..
> Hi everyone, I'm back :).
> 
> Just a little suggestion for the redhat-compliant systems. In the
> /etc/pam.d/webmin, replace the classic :
> auth     required    pam_unix.so etc....
> 
> By the more conventionnal :
> auth include system-auth
> 
> This allows Webmin on redhat-compliant system to authenticate users
> upon the Directory chosen by the administrator (so local, LDAP, NIS,
> etc...) instead of systematically authenticate upon local /etc/passwd
> base.
> 
> See the joined patch.
> 
> I'm conscious that authentication is a sensible part of the system so
> I can imagine it will be hard to include to Webmin. But maybe it can
> help ;).
> -- 
> Cl=E9ment V=E9ret