Oleg, Caldera, Red Hat and SuSE currently support pam authentication capabilities. Red Hat has added an ldap_pam module to "RH 6.1". I just performed a search on google for "pam module", and I came up with a page, "ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/pam/distrib/modules.html", which provides some light on modules that are available or in developement: sql based auth - informix, mysql s/key cryptocard samba or NT domain controler tacacs+ radius (provided by cryptocard folks) netware opie secure remote password NIS+. If zope has pam support, it might be easier to get someone to provide a new pam module than to create a new type of authentication for zope. Of course, I could be wrong. For all I know, it may be harder to configure pam stuff to work properly. Anyway, I am not a python programmer (I am not much of a programmer in general), or I would probably pursue this myself. I am just a creative thinker (especially in the area of security.) Clarence T. Pate Oleg Broytmann wrote:
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Clarence wrote:
This would be neat because you could use any type of authentication that was available from a pam-aware OS such as RedHat.
But what are types of auth currently supported by Linux systems? I know only password-based auth...
Clarence T. Pate
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