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Date:      Wed, 18 Nov 1998 22:13:03 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Vadim Kolontsov <vadim@tversu.ru>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Would this make FreeBSD more secure?
Message-ID:  <19981118221303.28678@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <19981119000914.A11045@tversu.ru>; from Vadim Kolontsov on Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 12:09:14AM %2B0300
References:  <199811172058.VAA02065@ocean.campus.luth.se> <86hfvwixby.fsf@detlev.UUCP> <19981119000914.A11045@tversu.ru>

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Moved followups to -hackers (as that seems most appropriate for this
part of the thread).

On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 12:09:14AM +0300, Vadim Kolontsov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 02:02:09PM -0600, Joel Ray Holveck wrote:
> 
> > Another point is that this could be easily augmented to handle other
> > authentication methods.  For example, OTPs, hand scanners, physical
> > keys, etc could all be handled by this one utility instead of having
> > to write it into each and every program that needs a password.
> > (Something keeps popping into my head talking about Kerberos, but I
> > don't know why.)
> 
>    I wonder how many people would like to see PAM support in FreeBSD?..

Enough that it was committed yesterday (or was that this morning?)

Eivind.

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