On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 11:09:20PM -0400, Nicolas Williams wrote: > To summarize: PAM offers authentication, [coarse] authorization, session > management, etc... GSS-API only does authentication, AAA (authenticiation, authorization and accounting) have been traditionally seperated conceptually for various reasons. I have always considered it a big source of confusion that PAM combines the first two As (and under the name of "authentication" alone, which is just plain wrong), but of course, YMMV. Some people like that integration, it seems. -- Ingo Luetkebohle / 21st Century Digital Boy its easy to stop using Perl: I do it after every project
