| Pluggable Authentication Modules |
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The pluggable nature of PAM is one reason for using Dynamic Linking of system binaries. However, this necessitates the availability of a recovery mechanism should a problem develop in the linker or shared libraries; for example both NetBSD and FreeBSD supply a /rescue directory containing statically linked versions of important system binaries. As the XSSO standard differs from both the original RFC, Linux and Sun APIs, and also from most other implementations, PAM implementations do not all operate in the same manner. For this and other reasons, OpenBSD has chosen to adopt BSD Authentication , an alternative authentication framework which originated from BSD/OS . SEE ALSO
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