Subject: Re: BSD Authentication
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>
List: current-users
Date: 08/26/2003 01:31:12
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itojun@iijlab.net writes:

>>1.  Does anyone have BSD Auth working on NetBSD?
>>2.  Does anyone plan to?
>>
>>I'm interested in this, just because it's one of my favorite features eve=
r.
>>:)
>
> 	every time i raise this question, i get attacked by pro-PAM people.

Its not that simple. Neither of them is good enough.

Some authentication mechs want to run in the same enviroment as the user,
others want to run with elevented privileges. Obviously these too goals
collide unless someone invents the equivalent of suid shared-libs.

Love


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