pp wrote:

> > On the positive side: it's possible. I've done a quick hack to test PAM
> > integration about a year ago. It seemed to work but I didn't finish it
> > at the time, and I don't have it around anymore. It only took me some
> > 3-4 days anyway, easy to reconstruct.
> >
>
> I do not think that this is positive, Emile.
> I wouldn't like to have the same login and pass for most
> server issues. If someone hacks mail pass , he gets all.
> That's not secure in my opinion.

Using PAM you don't have to authenticate to /etc/passwd. You could use
pam to access LDAP, and I use pam with my home imap server to
authenticate to an imap-specific dbm database.

Emile



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