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Date:      Thu, 11 Jun 1998 22:30:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        isp@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Radius login via getty
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980611222849.12029A-100000@hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <199806120136.SAA07321@usr09.primenet.com>

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On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > > Really, what we're looking at here, is something like Solaris'
> > > /etc/nsswitch.conf.  However, that does bring a whole baggage of
> > 
> > 	Actually, I believe that solaris is moving towards using PAM for
> > all this too...each of the above, I believe, already has a pam module out
> > there for it...
> 
> PAM has a number of known problems.
> 
> Use SASL instead.  Unlike PAM, thee is an RFC for SASL.

	Boy, does that ever make alot of sense...both Solaris and Linux
are adopting PAM as their authentication schemes, and are designing
various modules for it, but let's adopt something because, hey, it has an
RFC?



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