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Re: [tlug] Unix's 40th Birthday



On 2009-08-21 22:26 +0900 (Fri), Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Edward Middleton writes:
> 
>  > Gentoo is trying to clean this up PAM.
> 
> They're not serious if they're putting crap like that URL Curt posted
> up as "documentation".  Documentation is the first task to attack.  It
> will do more to secure systems than any amount of coding.

I would consider a distro "serious" if it came by default without
PAM, installed it only at the request of the administrator, and after
installation it had a configuration that allowed nothing at all beyond
what a system without PAM gives you.

cjs
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