On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 12:50:50PM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote: > I've had a couple people tell me "The Hurd doesn't use PAM" - I'm > wondering if someone could enlighten me as to what they mean. AFAIK > PAM is simply an outside library of authentication calls that can be > used instead of the native ones in Glibc. I have been building the > 'pam' package, and plan to soon start adding some of the > authentication modules.
Right. Debian GNU/Hurd provides PAM, and Debian itself has PAM deep PAM integration. I don't know what is meant either. Maybe that we don't add PAM support to Hurd servers, or otherwise advertise it. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
