In message <20030907025616.GB30869@mail.devonit.com>, Dan Melomedman writes:
>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?

Well, three at least.  The "standard" version, the BSD Auth version, and the
PAM version.

But it'd be a lot nicer to have them build from the same source, if at all
possible, because we don't want to duplicate bugs.

-s