Please do not explicitly depend on PAM for authentication

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Hello,

I was reading you installation document and found that you are depending on 
Authen::Simple::PAM.

PAM is not available on all operating systems or Linux distros.

Instead such users modifying the code to authenticate against different mode, 
could you make the authentication more modular? Authentication mode could be 
defined in a configuration file and then according to definition particular 
Authen::Simple::.... module would be used.

This would make your code more portable.

Thank you for taking this into mind.

jirib

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ji...@devio.us on 18 Feb 2012 at 4:19

[GoogleCodeExporter]

PAM is not a dependency, merely an option.  There are already several different 
authentication methods: none (trusted based on firewall settings), database 
(connection info and query are configuration items), LDAP (works also with 
Active Directory), and PAM as a last resort.  Does that fulfill your 
requirements?

Original comment by mchol...@gmail.com on 18 Feb 2012 at 7:56

• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
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[GoogleCodeExporter]

Hello,

thank you for info. As I wrote, I have been reading InstallationSteps till now,
of PAM is not needed then I will give ELSE try ;)

jirib

Original comment by ji...@devio.us on 20 Feb 2012 at 9:38

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Ok, I will close this.

Original comment by mchol...@gmail.com on 20 Feb 2012 at 10:37

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