I am in the same position. I have got some time left which
I could spent in an opensource project. Nearly all
things I dream of are already working.
So that I don't know where to join.
And Mozilla ist too big.
And like Florian I am interested in security.
If someone knows where to start, please
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One thing I am interested is, which ist AFAIK no
implemented yet:
Crossplattform userauthentication (win+unix),
via LDAP.
This is a great idea. I am willing to help if pointed in the right
direction. I guess using PAM and Samba together with
Ronny and all,
If you want to use LDAP, I suggest you do LDAP over SSL/TLS. The current
OpenLDAP doesn't support it natively, but I believe there's a patch, and
of course there's always wrappers like stunnel.
Of course, if you want to use user authentication from Windows, using PAM
is more or
As I recall after windows 95 the passwords are sent over the line
encrypted. The encryption might be weak but they are not clear text
anymore.
There is a switch in SMB to allow encrypted passwords. This is ON by
default in debian (I believe)
-Ryan
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 03:54:25PM +0200, Thomas Guettler wrote:
I am in the same position. I have got some time left which
I could spent in an opensource project. Nearly all
things I dream of are already working.
So that I don't know where to join.
And Mozilla ist too big.
And like Florian
Ryan,
It may be encrypted, but it isn't public-key encrypted or anything like
that. Anyone with a packet analyzer (ngrep will do it) can just send the
encrypted password to the server, so it's just as good as having the
cleartext password.
Regards,
Alex.
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Michael,
I have a better idea: an integrated 'user' command, which uses plugins to
access the actual database server (like PAM, but for writing to the
database rather than reading from it), and performs any of several
functions. Some examples:
# user add joe
Enter password:
Repeat password:
User
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