RE: [suse-security] pam_userdb database format

Yeah, the problem was the old dbm format. More to it tomorrow, I'm too sleepy. Good night. Boris.

-----Original Message----- From: Togan Muftuoglu [mailto:toganm@users.sourceforge.net] Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 6:27 PM To: suse-security@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-security] pam_userdb database format

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Dear Togan,

I did read the very message (the whole thread). There was just talks about different db formats and finally someone suggested to use some Perl-DB_File library (???) to create the _right_ db format. Still there's no guess what format is right here. In fact my intent was to run this setup on a SuSE 8.0 box (which is installed from

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CD set). I have the 8.1 (Budweiser) at hand for testing

* Boris Kimel; on 23 Dec, 2002 wrote: the original purposes, but

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think it is the same. Should we ask someone at SuSE?

Well some SuSE people do follow this mailinglist so we are actually asking SuSE among with many other sysadmins.

The other option is which does not solve the pam_userdb problem yet solves the virtual user creation is to use pure-ftp. I have been reading the documentation and looks like it is possible.

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Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx

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