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Not really—one could use processes and some form of IPC (shared memory, pipes, whatever). The efficiency could be pretty bad, but the safety and reliability co

by wtbob 12y ago

Not really—one could use processes and some form of IPC (shared memory, pipes, whatever). The efficiency could be pretty bad, but the safety and reliability could be better.

JoachimSchipper 12y ago
In fact, OpenBSD delegates logins to a login_<foo> binary, e.g. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man8/login_yubikey.8?query=login&apropos=1 http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man8/.... That works. OpenBSD's system is not as flexible as PAM, with the attendant upsides and downsides.
- bandrami 12y ago
  Yeah. There's a reason I stick with OpenBSD. I have absolutely no need for my authentication system to be "flexible".