On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 11:34:56PM +0100, Teodoro Santoni wrote:
> Good evening,
>
> 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.


It's impossible to authenticate against an LDAP server without PAM
afaik.
Perhaps nss can do in certain environments, but I think not always.

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