[Pam-developers] Re: pam_unix.so and IPv6 support
On St, 2016-03-02 at 14:00 +0100, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
Hi,
while finalizing IPv6 support for the Linux NIS implementation,
I found a problem with pam_unix.so. pam_unix.so can also only
change NIS passwords, if IPv4 is used, but not with IPv6.
My suggested patch would be (and yes, there is no simple TIRPC
variant of SunRPC getrpcport :( ):
Do I understand it correctly that getrpcport does not work with IPv6 so
you need to use libtirpc calls?
I have to say that the combination of IPv6 with NIS seems to me fairly
obscure. I'd expect deployments of IPv6 use more modern technology for
storing user identity like a LDAP directory.
So I did not test the patch and just quickly looked at it but if nobody
else speaks up soon feel free to commit it.
--
Tomas Mraz
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