On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

# Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:34:50 -0500
# From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
# To: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
# Cc: current-users@netbsd.org
# Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc
# 
# On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 02:44:06AM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
# > 
# >      Can you supply any details on it, and why it is being used instead
# > of PAM?  Any particular reason PAM isn't being used now that it has
# > become a pseudo standard (it is available in HP-UX, Linux, Solaris,
# > others???)?
# 
# Some "standard".  Nobody's "PAM" actually has the same API as anyone
# else's!

Not to mention that the last time such standards were put into place,
we got YP and NFS, one of which is still broken and one of which was
horribly corruptive of data for years.

				--*greywolf;
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