Peter Seebach wrote:
> I think the best solution available to us is:
> 1.  Implement libbsdauth and libpam.
> 2.  Build calls for both of them into login/su/xdm/etc.  This is mostly
> already done if we're willing to steal code from two different systems.
> 3.  Optionally, implement a new API which handles the easy cases and
> switches between them.


Why not simply ship two versions of each of the relevant
utilities?