Re: SLINK goals (was Re: login and pam)
apharris@burrito.onshore.com (Adam P. Harris) writes:
> Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de> writes:
>
> > I don't know if this issue has been discussed, but I would like to
> > know, if there will be support of pam (plugable authentication
> > modules) in login.
>
> I believe we shall be putting PAM back in as our auth infrastructure
> for Debian 2.1. AFAIK, we backed out of PAM in mid (?) 1997 because
> it was not stable (?),
No, it had nothing to do with stability, it was simply because
adapting shadow et. al. to PAM and adequately testing the result was
not feasible given the timescale we had for releasing hamm.
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James
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