From owner-cvs-all Wed Nov 13 12:32:44 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D50BC37B401; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:32:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from totem.fix.no (totem.fix.no [80.91.32.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5615B43E42; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:32:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anders@totem.fix.no) Received: by totem.fix.no (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DCF722029F; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 21:33:30 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 21:33:30 +0100 From: Anders Nordby To: David O'Brien , Robert Watson , Doug Rabson , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf src/libexec Makefile Message-ID: <20021113203330.GB19140@totem.fix.no> References: <200211130932.08532.dfr@nlsystems.com> <20021113201911.GD10193@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021113201911.GD10193@dragon.nuxi.com> X-PGP-Key: http://anders.fix.no/pgp/ X-PGP-Key-FingerPrint: 1E0F C53C D8DF 6A8F EAAD 19C5 D12A BC9F 0083 5956 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:19:11PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > 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. As maintainer of a few PAM ports (mod_auth_pam, pam-mysql), I beg to differ. I regularly talk to and help users to implement PAM application-wise. I also use PAM a lot myself for external authentication methods. I think many people appreciate PAM being there. Remove PAM, and I would need to consider another OS.. Cheers, -- Anders. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message