Password sync plugin, and questions about plugin criticality

[Ken Hornstein]

>We have all seen the ... fun of library versioning problems, 32/64
>bit lib issues, etc. that are caused when you decide to go with a
>plugin architecture rather than an IPC architecture.  Is there a
>compelling reason in this case to not avoid these issues?

There's already a plugin architecture in MIT Kerberos for extensions.
This was the direction they decided to go in; I'm just along for the
ride :-)  (Although I see no reason why you couldn't create a simple
"shim" plugin that talked via IPC to the complicated bits).

--Ken