Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 08:35:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAM4FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808050833190.21691-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199808041736.KAA08122@austin.polstra.com>
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On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, John Polstra wrote:
> I have been working on PAM for a client, and the client is willing
> to donate the work to FreeBSD. I think any flaws in PAM are not too
> serious, and can be fixed. I plan to bring it into -current when I
> get the official go-ahead from my client.
Hey, that's great news! I'm willing to write some auth modules when it's
done...
> > There is already existing framework of *CAP_AUTH, which was meant to be
> > used together with login_* modules. Is it dead or something? If it's dead,
> > let's bury its remains, and if not - let's start to write login_* modules.
>
> I looked at that stuff, and I want to remove it. It is very poorly
> defined even in BSD/OS, whence it came. Also it is inferior to
Good. Thus far, it was only causing confusion with no benefits.
Andrzej Bialecki
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