Re: PAM user interface.

[Ben Collins <bcollins debian org>]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 04:36:03PM +0400, Alex V . Melnikov wrote:
> Hello, people!
> I have read pam-modules development documentation
> and understood next, if i want to communicate with 
> user, i should use some pam interface, isn't it?
> But standard C function, like printf and scanf, 
> works too. 

You should use the PAM interface. Remember, the user interface you are
communicating with may not be a text console. It is just as likely to be a
GUI, or non-interactive, and your normal output can be missed completely,
or trash the interface.

Ben

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