PAM merge from FreeBSD

[Frank Cusack]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:44:51PM +1100, Damien Miller wrote:
> It also has support for POSIX threads, which is needed (I'm told) for 
> modules like pam_krb5. I have tested this with my basic PAM config, but 
>    the patch doesn't include the configure glue to make it work.

Having written a pam_krb5 myself, I find this hard to believe.  The
krb5 libs themselves do not have any thread support are not thread-safe.
The PAM library itself does not even support threads (each thread must have
it's own PAM handle).  Besides, sshd is single-threaded.

Having not looked at the patch, though, I shouldn't be so quick to slam it.

I like the idea of only doing PAM via kbdint, but that's not going to work
for a very large number of people.

/fc