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On Friday 09 April 2004 14:22, Volkov Peter Alexandrovich wrote: |
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> Hi again. I thank gentoo-security mailing list members for attention and |
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> help in solving my problem. |
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> Maybe this is a bit of "academical" interest, but maybe someone can explain |
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> me or may be a hyperlink... |
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> I can set /etc/hosts and inspect /etc/nsswitch.conf for configuration, so |
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> to make my computer look at hosts file first. And soon I'm going to setup |
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> local DNS server. And this of course solve my problem with delays. |
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> But one question remains. Why to login localy my station asks DNS? I |
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> thought that login program (with or without PAM) needs only login and |
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> password, then it compare it (of cource encrypted password) with items in |
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> the /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd file and with match login allows me to |
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> enter system. |
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> What information login program needs to know from DNS to authenticate me? |
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> Or more general. Why authentification with PAM needs some information from |
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> DNS and what is this information? |
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Most of the time the logs are configured to find out the host name from which |
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you logged in. Host names make more sense than ip addresses for most people. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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