Subject: Re: integrating PAM
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/25/2003 22:47:15
[ On Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 00:05:13 (-0800), Simon J. Gerraty wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: integrating PAM
>
> >Note BSD Auth can use PAM modules, but as I understand it, not the other
> 
> Some PAM modules perhaps but not those that want/need to tweak the 
> state of the original process.

Apparently, as has been revealed, that's not actually a problem (not
that I ever believed it was :-).

> Note I have no objection to BSD Auth, and making it an option (via PAM
> perhaps) sounds like a good idea.  But it is far from a "standard"
> (further than PAM anyway) and does not address all the issues PAM does.

It seems BSD-Auth is at least as "standard" as PAM.  :-)

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