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Re: [Xen-API] Use of PAM

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:29:13PM +0000, John Levon wrote:

> I suppose I don't quite understand what the PAM usage in xend is for then. It
> can't provide any additional security (since we must gate users at the point 
> of
> access over a secure transport). Obviously you'd like 'username' so that later
> auditing features can use it, but surely it's the responsibility of the secure
> transport to provide that and make sure it's authorized anyway.

Your secure transport might not have any per-user authentication.  It would
not be unreasonable to use SSL without client certificates, for example.

Ewan.

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