On Friday 11 July 2008 02:03:04 Tim Judd wrote: > I can't quote easily what the difference > between NSS and PAM is
PAM is a module that abstracts authentication, it does not authenticate itself, yet asks "providers" if the information passed to it is correct and then relays this to the application or tries a different method if this is allowed. NSS is an abstraction of cryptographic protocols, applied to a network. In this schema, it is a transport provider: ------- Application ------- ----- Network ----- / \ / \ +---------------+ +-----+ +-----+ +---------------+ + User/password | <---> | PAM | <---> | NSS | <---> | LDAP database + +---------------+ +-----+ +-----+ +---------------+ \ / \______Authentication______/ -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"