For what it's worth, PAM is also not invited to my parties, for all of the same reasons as sudo was shown the door. And what people want PAM for is mostly solve

For what it's worth, PAM is also not invited to my parties, for all of the same reasons as sudo was shown the door. And what people want PAM for is mostly solved with SSH certificates. >writing separate tools would be the equal (or more!) lines of code and an equal amount of bugs in total In total, yes, but crucially, not all on your system at the same time.