[ On Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 22:08:39 (+0100), Manuel Bouyer wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: integrating PAM
>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 01:44:29PM -0500, Dan Melomedman wrote:
> > Ken Hornstein wrote:
> > > >Work around by editing the source of programs linked to the PAM library,
> > > >and taking the PAM crap out.
> > > 
> > > Sure sounds like a religious argument to me.
> > 
> > What's so religious about this? If I don't want to use the PAM library,
> > I don't want my software to be linked against it.
> 
> Well, the same argument could be used againt the nis or hesiod libraries
> currently part of libc.

Indeed, but they go away very easily with some simple configuration
changes and a rebuild....  They are not integral -- just add-ons.

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