Re: [webmin-devel] Webmin PAM Authentication

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

On 11/Nov/2007 23:27 Cl=E9ment VERET wrote ..
> 2007/11/9, Jamie Cameron <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 .
> 
> On _every_ redhat compliant system this patch will work. I tested it
> at work where we have a patchwork of redhat distributions (from Fedora
> Core 3 to RHEL 5, through Red Hat 7.2 and CentOS 3/4/5).
> 
> I cannot be affirmative concerning Mandrake and SuSE... I don't really
> know how this distributions work about their authentication.
> 
> Is there somebody who has the ability to test it ?
> 
> > Is it possible
> > to have a pam.d/webmin file that somehow falls back to the old behavior
> > in cases like these?
> 
> I know PAM very well and I'm not sure this is possible... But I'm
> gonna have a try...

Let me know if you get anywhere with this. If not, a fallback would be to
use this PAM config only on Redhat-based systems, determined at the time
Webmin is installed in the RPM %post script.

 - Jamie