On Sun, 22 Nov 1998 15:54:44 -0500 (EST)  der Mouse wrote:

> I'd like to see *something* like it.  But before I'd commit much effort
> 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.

PAM is the closest thing to "standard", and ships with HP-UX,
Solaris and Linux, maybe others.

>From the little I've seen of it it doesn't look too terrible either,
although the model is a little more complex than crypt(3). :-)

Giles