On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 09:46:29 -0800 (PST) 
 Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net> wrote:

 > 	How many applications support BSD auth out of the box, vs. support
 > PAM?  For PAM, many of the apps I use (Cyrus, xscreensaver, ssh, etc...)
 > can be rebuilt with a different commandline option (maybe a patch) and
 > magically work.  Not so easy with BSD auth.  The main reason I'm
 > interested in PAM is so that I only have to solve any given problem once
 > and have the most widespread benefit possible.

right, PAM is a win because some fairly widely-used systems, like Solaris,
for example, use it.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>