PAM, keyboard interactive, pam-1 at ssh.com, interoperability

[carl at bl.echidna.id.au]

> From: Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org>
> 
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 bukys at rochester.edu wrote:
> 
> > Questions:
> > 
> > * Does anyone have plans to incorporate pam-1 at ssh.com into openssh,
> >   or know of plans to incorporate keyboard-interactive into ssh.com's
> >   product?
> 
> Why do we want to introduce a proprietary exchange into our client
> to support a commercial vendor who won't implement the standard 
> (kbd-interactive) way of doing such things?

Because sometimes compromise is a good way to reach a goal.  You're 
not supporting a commercial vendor, you're supporting your users.

qf Samba et al

Carl