Re: NetBSD/vax current

[Dave McGuire <mcguire%neurotica.com@localhost>]

On 04/19/2014 11:56 AM, David Brownlee wrote:
>>> Right, so, this points out something which seems obvious to me but perhaps
>>> it's not: *Of course* it takes longer, because the workload is not at all
>>> the same.
>>
>> Ayup. 30 seconds from entering username until I get a password prompt is
>> clearly asking the system to do much more today than in the past, so
>> obviously it is just as expected, and nothing to even talk about.
> 
> The system now processes through all the PAM infrastructure, which
> provides a bunch of additional functionality. Whether that
> functionality is worthwhile is certainly a valid discussion.

  [sorry, I fell behind on email due to a trip]

  If the PAM infrastructure is so poorly-written as to incur THAT much
overhead, then I consider that in itself to be a bug.  I realize that it
brings a great deal of functionality to the table, but man, at some
point one just has to admit that something is "overdone".  PAM
definitely falls into that category as far as I'm concerned.

               -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA