pam module that allows users to write their own configuration
Thorsten Kukuk
kukuk at suse.de
Fri May 23 05:42:49 UTC 2008
On Fri, May 23, Frankie Boy wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Me and my friend started to develop a PAM-module which moves the
> configuration-process responsibility from system administrator to system
> users.
> Every system user is able to configure his own pam-modules stack for
> authentication.
Hm, isn't that a big security risk? This would allow an user
to configure a very weak authentication schema, which allows
hacker to crack this account very fast ...
Thorsten
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