Michael, > A good point is brought up at http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards.html#SEC50 > It is a good idea to avoid creating symbolic links in makefiles, since a > few systems don't support them. > But then again, if it doesn't support symbolic links, PAM is likely not > going to get used on it. But wouldn't it be nice if NT would use PAM... NT already has its own authentication APIs which are used by all Microsoft products (fileserving, logons, IIS, etc), and which Microsoft encourages others to use as well. Out of curiousity, how do you feel that PAM on NT would be useful to you? GNU standards notwithstanding, I'm not personally interested in putting forth the coding effort to make PAM work on such a bizarre platform as NT. I do agree that it'd be good to eliminate this symlinkage as possible, because it simplifies the build process on /Unix/. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
