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To: Aidan Cully <aidan@kublai.com>
Cc: tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, current-users@netbsd.org,
        tech-security@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: making passwd pluggable (sort of)
References: <20000130122641.A8134@xanadu.kublai.com>
From: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
Date: 30 Jan 2000 19:31:31 +0100
In-Reply-To: Aidan Cully's message of "Sun, 30 Jan 2000 12:26:41 -0500"
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Aidan Cully <aidan@kublai.com> writes:
> Instead, I'd like to attempt to make passwd more pluggable, by defining
> an array of passwd-module structures.

Have you thought about using an existing solution for this problem,
like PAM?  And if you think that PAM is not a good solution, why not?

/assar