Subject: Re: BSD auth for NetBSD
To: NetBSD Security Technical Discussion List <tech-security@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/12/2003 16:50:03
On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 04:39 PM, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Hmmm.... Why is it that you (and other folks) seem to keep assuming
> that I am (or anyone else desiring BSD Auth first and foremost is)
> trying to prevent others from using PAM? I have never ever said that I
Well, those who are proponents of BSD Auth are basically preventing
people from using PAM by suggesting that PAM-on-top-of-BSD-Auth is
workable. In fact, it is not, since BSD Auth cannot do some of the
things PAM can do, period.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>