Re: ganymede question

[Jonathan Abbey <jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu>]

| Hello,
|
| I had a look at Ganymede recently and there is a question I'd be
| interrested in:
| 
| - are there any plans to include direct user validation for operation
| systems via ganymede (I'm thinking of PAM for Linux, Solaris and HP/UX?
| Does the Ganymede design allow this?
|
| Michael

It would be a little bit difficult, as Ganymede currently only supports client
access via RMI, which mean that clients (including a PAM module) would need to
be written in Java.  It would be possible to write a simple Java proxy to
allow a PAM module to authenticate against Ganymede using a simple socket
protocol, but I'm not sure what the advantage would be to doing this rather
than having the Ganymede server generate/manage NIS, /etc/passwd, or NT
user authentication.

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Jonathan Abbey				              jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu
Applied Research Laboratories                 The University of Texas at Austin
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