NSS and PAM

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 11:48, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > If I understand you correctly, you believe that it would be possible
> > to unite the NSS and PAM switches, so that they used the same
> > configuration file, dynamic loading mechanisms, cascading, and so
> > on.  Sure, I think that's possible.  There might even be some benefit,
> > though probably not enough benefit to abandon PAM/NSS and go our own
> > way.
> 
> Not to go our own way, no.  There's the rub.  It would have to be a
> reasonably wide effort; we'd need to get at least one major Linux
> distro to adopt the same infrastructure.

Has anyone considered the idea of hybridizing PAM with
Digital^WCompaq^WHP's SIA matrix setup?

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