23 Jul
2003
23 Jul
'03
7:06 p.m.
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 18:52, Jared wrote:
I still am not clear on why PAM is not supported for the user database.
Because PAM only provides a way to ask "does user X have password Y?". It doesn't provide a way to ask user's UID, GID or home directory.
I'm way out of my league here, but I thought getting UID, GID, etc, was the job of nsswitch.
That too. If you want to use nsswitch, use "passwd" as user database.