Re: GDM and alternate authentication methods

[Marius Andreiana <mandreiana rdsnet ro>]

"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" wrote:
> In short:  will GDM be usable without PAM?
Perhaps only the basic auth (user/pass compared with /etc/shadow), but
not anything else
(e.g. a system with LOTS of users which does an sql auth)

Using Linux, I don't see this a disadvantage. PAM works, we can use
that, we don't need to re-implement.
Better port PAM to other OSes.

Marius Andreiana
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