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@Kimmax
PAM can speak when it gets adopted by something other than mailservers and SSH. -
@metamourge PAM ... pluggable authentication modules.
Is pretty wide adopted.
Dunno what you mean?
(i'm really baffled by your Statement, since reaaaally a lot of modules are out there and even writing your own module is possible)
Why cant every server-application have a feature like openssh AuthorizedKeysCommand?!
So pretty much a command-hook for authentication.
You pass username, password and additional stuff to it, and its STDOUT and exit-status determine the authentication result.
No, instead of something so simple,
You're forced to use MySQL,LDAP...
rant