[Zope-dev] pam authentication support with PyPam

[Oleg Broytmann]

   Thanks!

On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Clarence wrote:
> 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.
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