In message <200309060546.h865k6oq004810@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca>, John Nemeth write
s:
>module.  This way if somebody switched to a different screen, they
>wouldn't be able to login.  The modules (an application may try more
>then one authentication method/module) that each application uses are
>specified in pam.conf.  Does BSD auth have a way of specifying
>different modules for different apps?

Yes.  "auth-ftp-defaults" is the default set of authentications for ftp
to use, for instance.

>} a system call for any program that wants setuid privs to be able to get them.

>     This is just plain absurd.

Well, it would be very convenient.

-s