185490 – pam explanation could do with a picture

Bug 185490 - pam explanation could do with a picture

Summary: pam explanation could do with a picture

Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Alias:	None

Product:	Documentation
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Other (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	PAM Gentoo Team (OBSOLETE)

URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/pam/
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Reported:	2007-07-16 04:03 UTC by SpanKY
Modified:	2015-06-10 16:31 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description SpanKY gentoo-dev

2007-07-16 04:03:00 UTC

the pam document could do with a picture showing the layers of authentication ... i think this would help nicely with the explanation of PAM and the different components

so you'd have like:
[ application (gdm/Dovecot/etc...) asks for file in /etc/pam.d/ ]
[ libpam (sys-libs/pam) parses the config file(s) and runs modules as needed ]
[ pam_unix.so ] [ pam_mysql  ] [ pam_ldap    ] [ ... etc ... ]
[ /etc/passwd ] [ <mysql db> ] [ <ldap serv> ]

Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-16 04:11:16 UTC

Nothin' to do with us...

Comment 2 Alex Xu (Hello71) 2015-06-10 16:31:32 UTC

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PAM/en doesn't have a picture, but that can be brought up on the talk page.