James Carlson wrote: > > I agree that using PAM is a bit architecturally suspicious, as we're > not authenticating users for the purpose of logging them into the > system, but it has operational advantages, including:
For some historical trivia, PSARC/2002/053 for iPlanet Application Server 7 required the app server to add a module to support authentication via PAM. So that use case has been not only accepted but actually required by ARC in the past. -- Jyri J. Virkki - jyri.virkki at sun.com - Sun Microsystems
