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Re: login program



>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:

    Ben> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:58:04PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
    Ben> wrote:
    >> > > One suggestion, why not install a /bin/login-otpw, and have
    >> people > modify /etc/inittab to use it, instead of using a
    >> diversion?
    >> > 
    >> 
    >> and why not PAM?

    Ben> PAM doesn't fit the One Time Password model.

Sure it does.  Ssh doesn't strictly fit the OTP model, but even that
is being fixed.

One of the design goals of PAM was to allow for arbitrary
prompts/responses.



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