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Re: fully supporting static linking in NetBSD (ar "zero" flag)




On 16-Aug-08, at 10:28 PM, David Holland wrote:

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:04:44AM -0400, Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc. wrote:
The sad thing is that another, simpler, safer, and arguably more secure alternative is freely available and could have been used in place of PAM but it was dismissed for reasons that even binary-only vendors cannot fully justify without resorting to arguments based solely on marketing hype and
propaganda.

Such as?


The BSD Authentication framework, with full native privilege separation by design.

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                                        Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc.
                                        <woods%planix.ca@localhost>



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