Re: snauth

Alexey Nogin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.sn
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Chris Green wrote:

> > See the patch at ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/nogin/sn-0.3.3-pam.patch or 
> > the complete RedHat packages at http://nogin.org/RPM/sn.html
> > 
> Thanks, however I'm not getting far with either of the above.
> 
> The RPM is no good to me because I'm building on a system that's not
> mine and I can't get RPM to extract just the bits I need. 
>
You should be able to extract the bits using rpm2cpio and cpio programs.

> When I connect to ftp.cs.cornell ordinary ftp just hangs, ncftp
> reports "Could not set out of band inline mode: Invalid argument."
> and, after some retries, disconnects.
>
I copied it to http://nogin.org/sn-0.3.3-pam.patch
 
> It may well be that PAM authentication is not what I want anyway!
> 
With PAM you can do almost any kind of authentication you might want. The 
RPM (but not the patch) comes with a setup that uses PAM for 
authentication against a plain text file. Although, you might need to do 
some additional work to get it work without having a config files in 
/etc...

Aleksey
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