We can make use of it. The last update in 2007 may indicate stable code, but may also indicate problematic, dead code. What I have is pretty much JPAM. I recall trying JPAM but chose to create my own, and I do not recall why.
Gregg Sent from my iPad On May 12, 2010, at 7:54 PM, Dennis Reedy <[email protected]> wrote: > I wonder if the JPam work might also fit here? http://jpam.sourceforge.net/ > > > On May 12, 2010, at 431PM, Gregg Wonderly wrote: > >> Peter Firmstone wrote: >>> Anyone got any ideas for PAM in Apache River? >> >> Currently, because JAAS is broken and providing no access to authentication >> APIs of the host OS, we'd have to provide JNI code to do authentication >> against PAM or other native authentication mechanisms, if done in the same >> JVM where less trust paranoia has to occur. An external authentication >> service could be written which might bind to "localhost:xxx" and use an SSL >> cert based authentication to connect. We could then use local native >> processes as authentication agents to authenticate Jini users. >> >> My http://pastion.dev.java.net project includes a JNI based authentication >> API that uses PAM on linux. There is/was a difference in APIs for Solaris >> vs Linux that might still need some customizations. I am not familiar with >> what we'd need to use a windows based directory service. >> >> Gregg Wonderly >
