>>>>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 14:58:58 -0500,
>>>>> Lawrence Greenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (lg) writes:

lg> This is exactly the problem.  A future version of Cyrus SASL will
lg> probably discontinue the PAM password method is favor of forcing
lg> people to use pwcheck.

Then what about things you could have in PAM, such as pam_ldap?
Wouldn't it be a bit extreme to throw out the PAM support just
because of this one case?

Perhaps if configure enables PAM support, it could print a warning
message that for local passwd/shadow access, pwcheck should be used?

-- 
Amos

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