[HN Gopher] How BSD Authentication Works
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       How BSD Authentication Works
        
       Author : daca
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2021-10-19 14:06 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.lambda.cx)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.lambda.cx)
        
       | 1MachineElf wrote:
       | BSD Auth is awesome, but if anyone wants PAM, it's available as a
       | port: https://openports.se/security/openpam
        
       | peatmoss wrote:
       | Would be great to specify that this covers specifically OpenBSD.
       | First sentence of the article:
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       | > The way OpenBSD authenticates users is quite different from
       | other Unix-like operating systems. Most other systems like AIX,
       | Solaris, Linux, the other BSDs, and MacOS, use a framework called
       | Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM).
       | 
       | OpenBSD does some things very differently, and whether you _like_
       | the way they do things may be a matter of taste. However, when
       | the OpenBSD people do something different, it's usually carefully
       | reasoned, cleanly implemented, or at least thought provoking.
        
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