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On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Chris Humphries wrote:

>why change anything? is it broken? as far as i know, it is still
>working fine. is it not? then why change it and introduce new bugs
>when what we have is working fine. sure there is other stuff that
>_isnt_ working or working kinda-sorta-not-really-sometimes that
>could use all this attention.
>
>am i wrong? what am i missing?

There are a lot of things which we would like to be able to do (and
which other open source OS's can already do), having to do with
authenticating users based on third-party database or network
information systems, which can't be done without some form of pluggable
authentication API.

That's the goal here.  The question of `ok, then which API?' is still in
play.  :-)

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				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com
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