Weary of PAM? Do it in Guile!

Weary of PAM? Do it in Guile!

[Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.]

Hello friends!

People can now write PAM modules in GNU Guile.  Not just sysadmins but
regular users, too.  You can read more here:

    https://juix.org/guile-pam/

If you like it, you can also convert your system. [1]

Kind regards
Felix

[1] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/72316

Re: Weary of PAM? Do it in Guile!

[Jack Hill]

On Fri, 26 Jul 2024, Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. wrote:

> Hello friends!
>
> People can now write PAM modules in GNU Guile.  Not just sysadmins but
> regular users, too.  You can read more here:
>
>    https://juix.org/guile-pam/

Hey,

I haven't had a chance to play with this yet, but I wanted to say thank 
you and congratulations on the release and patches. This is really, really 
cool!!!

Best,
Jack

Re: Weary of PAM? Do it in Guile!

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Felix,

Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System
distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org> skribis:

> People can now write PAM modules in GNU Guile.  Not just sysadmins but
> regular users, too.  You can read more here:
>
>     https://juix.org/guile-pam/
>
> If you like it, you can also convert your system. [1]

[...]

> [1] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/72316

This is all pretty impressive!  I only quickly browsed the nice and
detailed Guile-PAM manual, and I guess it would make sense to consider
using it in Guix—Guile all the things, that’s very much the spirit.  :-)

Can you tell whether it entails tradeoffs in terms of functionality,
compatibility, or other risks?

Thanks for sharing!

Ludo’.