Subject: Re: "BSD Authentication"
To: Brian Buhrow <buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu>
From: Ted Lemon <mellon@hoffman.vix.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/23/1998 19:38:13
> A PAM model would probably be better than a BSD model, unless, as
> someone suggested, one could do both, using the BSD model to implement a
> PAM model.

An important point to bear in mind is that we don't want this to be
complex.  Implementing PAM on top of the BSD/os model would be even
more complex than just using the BSD/os model.   This means that there
would be more opportunities to make an embarrassing and compromising
mistake.   So I think we should pick PAM, or BSD/os, or neither.   We
should not pick both.

			       _MelloN_