In message <20030123183546.GE591@mail.devonit.com>, Dan Melomedman writes:
>This won't happen if every program which does authentication will be
>linked against it. Which again, means that somehow PAM should be
>optional.

Hmm.

<hypothetical>
$ grep AUTH /etc/mk.conf
AUTH_STYLE="PAM"
</hypothetical>

If we did that, we could support both BSD Auth *and* PAM, each "natively", by
using #ifdefs in the affected programs.  Might not work for everything, but
it'd be cool.  I would be happy to try to help anyone working on BSD Auth
stuff.

-s