On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 seebs@plethora.net wrote:

# Note:  This isn't quite fair.  BSD Authentication solves this problem
# too.  I mean, you still have to hack everything *once*, to change the
# prompting mechanism - but once you've done it once, you can add
# authentication schemes until the cows come home. 

	How many applications support BSD auth out of the box, vs. support
PAM?  For PAM, many of the apps I use (Cyrus, xscreensaver, ssh, etc...)
can be rebuilt with a different commandline option (maybe a patch) and
magically work.  Not so easy with BSD auth.  The main reason I'm
interested in PAM is so that I only have to solve any given problem once
and have the most widespread benefit possible.

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