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Re: Is it too late to try and generalize PAM for woody?



>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Martin <dtmartin24@home.com> writes:

    Daniel> I've been following this thread and I have a small
    Daniel> question as to why we'd need to overload/change the
    Daniel> semantics of the /etc/pam.d/other file.

    Daniel> Why not merely build a new pam module, called something
    Daniel> like pam_chain, that does nothing but invoke other pam
    Daniel> modules as specified in its configuration?  To get an
    Daniel> example of what I mean:

You aren't bringing up new ideas.  That is the pam_inherit option.  

As I said I'm not interested in having the technical discussion now;
for the moment I'm just discussing whether solving this problem is a
good idea.



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