pam_userdb.so: Where is it?

[N.J. Thomas]

* Kyrre Nygard <kyrreny at broadpark.no> [2006-05-10 18:18:23 +0200]:
> > > Does anybody know where pam_userdb.so has gone?
> >
> > FreeBSD doesn't appear to have ever had it, so it hasn't "gone"
> > anywhere. The thread you linked to below suggests exactly that.
> >
> >
> > You could download the source and try and build it.
>
> That's a real good advice. I'll see what I can do with it ...

Kyrre,

More info for you, digging through the archives came up with this:

    http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-April/117922.html

Quoting:

> > There's no pam_userdb.so available for FreeBSD. You could use
> > pam_pwdfile.so, which is in the ports-collection. Users are
> > added/changed e.g. through htpasswd. Works well if you have not a lot of
> > accounts.
> > 
> > a simple vsftpd.pam could look like this:
> > 
> > auth    required /usr/local/lib/pam_pwdfile.so pwdfile /etc/vsftpd_login
> > account required /usr/lib/pam_permit.so
> 
> 
> Just to let you know that worked a treat

hth,
Thomas

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