In message <199811222054.PAA14708@Twig.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>, der Mouse write
s:
>to rolling this particular way of doing it into NetBSD, I'd like to see
>it contrasted to PAM, about which I know just about nothing except the
>very general conceptual level.

What is PAM?

>I can probably handle some of it; I've worked inside login(1) before,
>for example.  But again, I'd like to see more details on both this and
>PAM before sinking more than investigatory effort into it.  (And any
>other ways of doing flexible authenticaion, too, if anyone knows of any
>such other ways.)

I can provide some amount of detail about the BSD Authentication system.
I like it because it's in use, it works beautifully, and compatability with
it would make life easier for me.  :)

-s