Could you give more details? I am not familiar with PAM. I know it can use some "plugged" auth methods to do some job, but I do not know which plug is suitable. What I want is just like Richardson's remarks. I want to use two auth methods for web users and users who can have a shell, which the former will care less about the security of the password. e.g. two different passwords for them. I do want to know if there are better solutions. Regards, Wei Yu On 5/29/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > > Gary Richardson wrote: > > > >> > Will RHDS be better in integrating with other programs? > >> > For example the MTA, apache, etc. Does it have a built-in > configuration > >> > tool for these tasks? > >> > >> Speaking of apache, is there some reason mod_auth_pam or some variation > >> isn't standard in distributions where pam is the system authentication > >> method? Shouldn't you configure PAM instead of every individual > program? > >> > > > I typically like having my website auth separate from my system auth - > > more often than not, the web users have nothing to do with the people > > that administer the machine > > PAM provides different authentication and account schemes, so you can > easily check passwords for things like web services without providing > login accounts. Or, if it is an intranet providing many services for the > same set of users you can combine them if you want. The point is that > it gives you a common way to configure authentication/authorization and > to combine multiple methods, like using local accounts in addition to > one or more network schemes. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Zijing 15# 1404B Tsinghua Univ. +86 -10 -51537235 Zig -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070529/b27a1b8d/attachment-0005.html>