On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Todd Vierling wrote:

// PAM is similar, but doesn't require communication with a server (or
// "middleman server", in the case of things like YP or SQL or radius).  
// The code is run in the space of the process doing authentication,
// via a shlib.

	If PAM is becoming a standard, then why shouldn't it be supported?
It certainly simplifies a lot of development for portable applications.
It means that portable applications can seperate authentication from the
rest of the app.  I'm preparing to do some weird auth stuff at work, and
I'm not really looking forward to making all applications work with
whatever I come up with (not to mention re-building and making sure
everything has the new bins).

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