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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:13:07 +0200
From: u-igbb@...ey.se
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: musl 1.0.x branch -- OT

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:25:06PM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> You probably knew but this is what OpenBSD does instead of suid + PAM:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Authentication
> 
> I have always liked this approach.

+1

SUN invented several things which became hugely popular.
Unfortunately quite a few of them were extremely flawed by design.

Nsswitch, NFS and PAM are notable examples of the latter.

Nice that we can at least skip nsswitch with musl.

Rune

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