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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| Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 |
| Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University |
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