On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 01:48:29PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 25 May 2012 04:53:59 Karel Zak wrote:
> > pidof
> > - from sysvinit; not sure, probably into procps-ng
>
> with the new project, this is probably possible
>
> > su
> > - will be merged from coreutils into util-linux (2.22 ?)
> >
> > login
> > - already merged Suse version into original login from utils-linux.
> > The result is PAM-only login(1) with /etc/login.defs support.
>
> requiring pam is a problem. i won't be able to convert over to util-linux
> for
> utils that are pam-only.
Why? More details, please :-)
IMHO is better to use PAM everywhere than duplicate non-PAM code and
assume that the code is correct and well tested. PAM is abstraction,
the final configuration don't have to be complicated.
Karel
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