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Re: severe deficiencies in our PAM setup



On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 11:08:45PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> 	Given the advantages if file inclusion, conditional sections,
>  etc, I would think that the advantages outwiegh the objections in
>  this case. 
> 
> 	I would rather we had a well known, and still simple, approach
>  like using cpp rather than reinventing the wheel yet again to provide
>  equivalent benefits. 

On the other hand, I don't really desire to trust a CPP parser - it's a
very complicated pile of code.  And while it is fairly efficient, I
still don't want to see it run every time a service authenticates via
PAM.

Dan

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