Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 22:38:11 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, isp@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Radius login via getty Message-ID: <199806120538.WAA00405@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jun 1998 22:30:45 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980611222849.12029A-100000@hub.org>
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> On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Actually, I believe that solaris is moving towards using PAM for > > > all this too...each of the above, I believe, already has a pam module out > > > there for it... > > > > PAM has a number of known problems. > > > > Use SASL instead. Unlike PAM, thee is an RFC for SASL. > > Boy, does that ever make alot of sense...both Solaris and Linux > are adopting PAM as their authentication schemes, and are designing > various modules for it, but let's adopt something because, hey, it has an > RFC? This is the "20 million flies" argument. PAM is broken as designed; implementing it might be expedient, but will never be "right". -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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