Re: PAM questions?

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

First let me just say that I think PAM is rather detestible.  It is a
nice idea, but I have used too many RedHat systems and many times PAM
makes things very complicated or broken.

Please, let's not depend on it any more than we do now.

Paul J Thompson <thomppj@thomppj.student.okstate.edu> writes:

> Where can I find information on where Debian currently stands with PAM.  I 
> know that Samba uses PAM and so _some_ form of PAM is packaged but I was 
> wondering to what extent this stuff has been worked out.  Or if there is a 
> Debian page somewhere which describes are plan of attack for PAM.
> 
> I would be interested in building some packages of applications which use pam.
> 
> Anyone have any thoughts?
> 
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