Subject: Re: BSD auth for NetBSD
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-security
Date: 09/14/2003 13:14:31
[ On Saturday, September 13, 2003 at 19:08:02 (-0700), Jason Thorpe wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: BSD auth for NetBSD 
>
> 
> On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 11:18  AM, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> 
> > No, that's not really true.  PAM and BSD Auth are authentication
> > frameworks.  I'm talking only about a "shim" API that hides the
> > particular flavour of framework from applications.
> 
> ...and that defeats the whole purpose of using either.

I don't thinks so!  Why do you think so?  Are you really sure you
understand what I'm trying to describe?

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