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Date:      Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:19:11 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf src/libexec Makefile
Message-ID:  <20021113201911.GD10193@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021113085120.66084B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <200211130932.08532.dfr@nlsystems.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021113085120.66084B-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:01:32AM -0500, Robert Watson wrote:
> If I had sent the request to the TRB, the result I would
> have been looking for would either be
> 
>   (a) that the interfaces must be implemented if we ship a service,
> 
> or
> 
>   (b)  we do not have, and will not have, standard authentication and
>        account management interfaces (and as such there is no obligation
>        for committers introducing new services that might uses those
>        interfaces to implement support for them). 

Heck, I'd like to propose to the TRB to remove PAM from the base system.
No one I talk to has found any use for it, and it hasn't provided any
functionality that I know of that we did not have before we brought in
PAM.  While we are all aware of the constaint pain it gives users.

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