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From: Saint Neon <neo_chanakya@yahoo.com>
To: "Miguel \"González\"\"Castaños\"" <mgc@tid.es>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OT: password management
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 07:22:41 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030108152241.18991.qmail@web40803.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E1C2D46.2EC825EF@tid.es>


--- Miguel González Castaños <mgc@tid.es> wrote:
> dear all,
> 
>  I would like to know how you guys solve the problem
> about how to
> manage passwords of a bunch of accounts in different
> servers in a safe
> way of course (generating new passwords,
> save/retrieve them, etc) but
> easyly accesable at
> the same time...

PAM (Pluggable Application Modules) provide a
centralized mechanism for authenticating all services.
It applies to login, rlogin, telnet, rsh, PPP, su
among others. In fact, PAM can be used for any linux
application. The best documentation is available at

http://www.kernel.org/linux/libs/pam/

Neon.


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-08 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-08 13:53 OT: password management Miguel González Castaños
2003-01-08 15:22 ` Saint Neon [this message]
2003-01-08 15:38   ` Miguel González Castaños
2003-01-08 23:58     ` Milan P. Stanic
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-08 15:44 Shaw, Marco
2003-01-08 15:42 ` Alok K. Dhir
2003-01-08 16:12   ` Saint Neon

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