Re: snauth

On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 09:41:41AM -0400, Alexey Nogin wrote:
> 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.
> 
OK, thanks, I have rpm2cpio on a system other than the one where I'm
running sn but that shouldn't present too much of a problem.  Files
can always be moved around.


> > 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
>  
Thanks!


> > 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...
> 
That sounds nearly what I want and a bit of bending of the
configuration shouldn't be beyond me.

Thanks for all the help.

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