Subject: Re: BSD Authentication
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: current-users
Date: 09/08/2003 14:35:00
In message <200309081925.h88JPUg18479@srapc342.sra.co.jp>, Noriyuki Soda writes
:
>>>>>> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 12:22:48 -0700 (PDT),
> Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com> said:
>NS> Anyway, the reason I prefer PAM is simple.
>NS> 1. We need PAM anyway, for compatibility with other UNIX.
>> This alone is not a sufficiently compelling reason. My friends are jumping
>> off a bridge; shall I follow them?
>You don't.
>But I believe NetBSD must, just because there are users who need to
>jump.
Traditionally, Unix has given you enough rope to hang yourself. I guess
we're trying to offer people more choices now. Should we add
http://www.metanoia.org/suicide/
to /usr/share/doc now?
-s