Re: patch for pam authentication in cvs

[Kevin Wang]

 From Larry Jones
> Kevin Wang writes:
> > 
> > Also, virtually all modern OSes use PAM
> 
> I think that's overstating the case a tad, unless your definition of
> "modern OS" is Linux; I don't know of any other system that uses PAM by
> default.  And, while they may or may not be modern, I'm sure there are
> lots of OSes in common use that don't support PAM at all.

solaris does, hpux does, sgi does, ibm does.

As for supported by default, that is a good question.  I would think
that pam could be a configure option, and only compile if available on
platform.  That way someone doesn't have to find a patch, just compile
with a different flag.

   - Kevin