Subject: Re: BSD Authentication
To: Michael G. Schabert <mikeride@mac.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: current-users
Date: 09/09/2003 00:17:05
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:35:57PM -0400, Michael G. Schabert wrote:
> The problem is that there's these camps that seem to think that 
> there's some sort of either-or issue here. The issue is NOT "choose 
> PAM or BSD Auth". There *IS*NO*OPTION*FOR*PAM* on the table at all. 
> NetBSD will *NEVER* have PAM, unless someone steps forward to 
> implement it. *NOWHERE* in this thread has a single person done that. 
> So PAM is absolutely, totally irrelevant in this discussion. Throw it 

It is relevant, as could other auth systems. The way BSD auth is implemented
should not prevent others authentifications systems from bein integrated
later, with a way for the user which one it wants to use.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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