| Re: (cooking) - dropbear-pam 0.52, vs dropbear-pam 0.52? |
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Le Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:55:48 +0800,
"Jeffrey 'jf' Lim" <jfs.world@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
hi,
I suppose dropbear-pam add PAM authentication support to dropbear.
I guess you need some extra files in /etc/pam.d to make work correctly.
+Eric.
> "bumping up" a question - which never got answered. Essentially: what
> is the difference between dropbear, and dropbear-pam?
>
> -jf
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim
> <jfs.world@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > anybody? (see below)
> >
> > -jf
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim
> > <jfs.world@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim
> >> <jfs.world@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> hey guys, I'm just wondering (i'm new to slitaz, btw. Just
> >>> checking it out) what the difference is between the 2
> >>> "dropbear-pam"s that I see in the package manager when I do a
> >>> search (for 'dropbear'). Is one for stable, and one for cooking?
> >>> Then what happens if i install the one for stable while i'm
> >>> running cooking? Whatever the case (even if it makes no
> >>> difference for now), it would really be good to be able to
> >>> highlight this difference in "version" by having a separate
> >>> column in the gui to show this?
> >>>
> >>> Another related question - what is the difference between
> >>> 'dropbear', and 'dropbear-pam'? From the names, it seems like
> >>> 'dropbear' is not using the standard username/password database
> >>> ("pam") to handle login. But if that's the case, how do i get to
> >>> this database, and manage it?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> At the very least (even if i dont know, or have no way of managing
> >>> this database right now), logging in with tux/root should work.
> >>> But it doesnt right now. I've looked at the official dropbear
> >>> (whatever there is inside the tarball) documentation as well - no
> >>> mention of this "no-pam" mode.
> >>>
> >>
> >> ok, nvm about this last bit. Turns out tux's password was not
> >> enabled... I can still login with the standard 'dropbear' (instead
> >> of 'dropbear-pam'). And of course, root login is not allowed based
> >> on how dropbear is called. The rest of the questions still stand,
> >> though.
> >>
> >> -jf
> >>
> >
>
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