Re: libgnomesu [was Re: Proposed modules: my consensus so far]

[Mike Hearn <mike navi cx>]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:50:52 +0100, Hongli Lai wrote:
> >  Why do we need the su backend? For platforms
> >  that don't use PAM? If so, which platforms are they?
> 
> See above points. I don't know which platforms specifically, but people 
> in the past have objected against using PAM as the only method in 
> authentication systems. I've also heard that Linux and Solaris are the 
> only systems that support PAM (not sure). I'm only keeping this backend 
> around to keep people happy.

Slackware doesn't ship with PAM by default, for one, though Dropline adds
it. You could argue we should ignore this as PAM is a part of the LSB but
there's no formal dependency on the LSB in GNOME.