> If anyone wants to rewrite PAM in Rust... :-D
replyIf you do, offer support for writing modules in a scripting language like Lua or Python. PAM could make it a lot easier to just add OAuth with your company IdP, for example…
Ah, but then you choose the wrong language or language runtime and distros ship old versions for 10+ years :)
reply(compare: polkit. Both sides have their point, but I've been annoyed by this standoff a few times).
Pretty sure the 2s delay is designed to slow down brute-forcing it.
replyNot for local password authentication.
replyhttps://github.com/pibara/pam_unix/blob/master/unix_chkpwd.c...