Michael Ströder michael@stroeder.com wrote:
Off course answering questions on the list is contributing to the project. But contributing to docs would mean you identify the place in the docs where your information should be added, you improve your information according to the list's feedback, you either provide a patch or file an ITS with sufficient information.
Sure, I'm very interested by feedback on the actual content on the document. Here are the feedbacks I gathered so far:
1) I used deprecated features, but I was not told which was the deprecated features
2) I document only a small part of SASL capacities. I'm aware of that. The scope of the document was just to explain how to validate a login/password against a random PAM authentication source. It's better than nothing.
3) Doing authentication that way is The Wrong Way, I should authentitcate against LDAP or Kerberos. Well, it would certainly be better to do that, but is it completely unreasonnable to start using OpenLDAP without refactoring the world around it? Migration paths can go through harsh flag days or through softer incremental steps. I'm convinced that setting up an LDAP authentication against PAM can help people that try to make a small incremental step.