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Lähettäjä: Karl Hammar
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Vastaanottaja: Teodoro Santoni
Kopio: dng, Karl Hammar
Aihe: Re: [DNG] PAM usage (Was: Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities)
Teodoro Santoni:
> 2016-01-04 21:43 GMT+01:00, Rainer Weikusat <rainerweikusat@???>:
> > karl@??? writes:
> >> chaosesqueteam@???:
> >>> I don't understand the desire to change it at all.
> >> And neither do I.
> >> Except someone talked about ssl libs.
> > Someone wrote about some PAM module which would require OpenSSL. No such
> > PAM module currently exists on my system and I don't quite understand
> > why 'PAM modules' would be needed for booting a system, anyway.
> Nothing is impossible and someone may wish to integrate his/her wordpress' login
> credentials with the computer(s) he/she manage.
> I recognize it's a stupid example.
>
> However: logind, systemd, the MadnessKit family of Kits, break configurations
> because of byzantine and heterogenous types of login (rfid, TPM,
> fingerprints, ...), masses of sec data different than "a key for a service"
> and multi-user access to programs (thirty years of X server
> and you can run X as root XOR use systemd). Or so it seems.
> But do any of you find useful to have PAM? Do any of you need single-sign-on,
> TPM, smart-cards that unlock ttys, integrate kerberos with linux, or the like?


And what has "how to login" to do with "how to boot" ?

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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