On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 07:27:06 +0100 Dominic Fandrey <kamik...@bsdforen.de> said:

> On 08/02/2013 08:55, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> > On Fri, 08 Feb 2013 06:29:18 +0100 Dominic Fandrey <kamik...@bsdforen.de>
> > said:
> >> Enough of this. my queue of things to do with e17 is getting longer
> >> and longer. I already want to hook the pam.d code into enlightenment_sys
> >> so screen unlock actually works in FreeBSD (only root can auth via
> >> pam_unix).
> > 
> > no user level authentication? booooo! :(
> 
> Well, pam generally works, but password auth requires access to
> /etc/master.passwd and that's 0600 root:wheel.

yes - know that, but linux distros generally ship with a user level pam module
that spans some kind of setuid root tool to allow such auth... regardless - it
works as a normal user, and thats why we dont bother doing it as the os has
done that work for us. :) can't you just recycle that on bsd?

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