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Date:      Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:04:45 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Chris Costello <chris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OpenPAM
Message-ID:  <3C76CE8D.1660973B@mindspring.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0202221439540.74100-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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Julian Elischer wrote:
> The advantages to using linux_pam is obviously that we get to piggyback
> off them for new kinds of pam modules etc. Is this still the case?

Yes.  Pam is just an API.

> can a linux_pam module be used (once compiled for FreeBSD) on a FreeBSD
> system?

Yes.

> how much work is it to convert the source for a Linux Pam module to a
> BSD-PAM module?

Same as now; most of the time, it's just a recompile, unless
there are unexpected Linux-isms in the code to hamper it being
portable between UNIX systems.

> The deliberatly gave the Linux-poam stuff a BSD copyright originally
> to allow us to use it.. WHy does it need to be rewritten?

I'll let DES answer that one... though have you looked at the
Linux-PAM code?

-- Terry

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