Re: fully supporting static linking in NetBSD (ar "zero" flag)

["Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc." <woods%planix.ca@localhost>]

On 16-Aug-08, at 10:28 PM, David Holland wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:04:44AM -0400, Greg A. Woods; Planix,  
> Inc. wrote:
> > The sad thing is that another, simpler, safer, and arguably more  
> > secure
> > alternative is freely available and could have been used in place  
> > of PAM
> > but it was dismissed for reasons that even binary-only vendors  
> > cannot fully
> > justify without resorting to arguments based solely on marketing  
> > hype and
> > propaganda.
>
> Such as?


The BSD Authentication framework, with full native privilege  
separation by design.

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                                        Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc.
                                        <woods%planix.ca@localhost>