Re: PAM

[Stefan Wold <s wold wineasy se>]

Hi Caroline.

It's pretty much useless. And it won't disable PAM for you so don't worry.
Auth can be used to check if the remote user has the rigth identification
and if it is it will allow him to continue to the authentication. Since
this identification can be easily faked it's just useless to have it
running.  Normally this feature isn't used and DOESN'T need to be
either, it can be a securityhazard to have it enabled.
Check this URL for more information regarding auth (identd):
http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/identd.html

Sincerely
Stefan Wold           Vxl: +46 8 56311000  Wineasy AB
Staff, Sysadmin UNIX  Fax: +46 8 56311010  AGA / Dalénum, Hus 113, 3TR
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                      Tel: +46 8 56311093  Sweden

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Caroline Benton wrote:

> Thanks Stefan for your help on solving the auth/tpc bind: Address
> already in use.  By commenting out the auth line in inetd.conf, I was
> able to solve the problem
>
> Dear everyone,
> Thanks for all your help in the past. Please let me ask more questions.
> I am not too sure what commenting out the auth line in inetd.conf means,
> but I assume it means that the authentication daemon problem will be
> disabled.  What will this effect?  Will it stop valid users from gaining
> access to needed services? Is this in any way related to PAM  (will it
> disable PAM), or am I being too dumb for words?
>
> Thanks for your input.
> Caroline
>
>
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