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Because PAM is the default authentication framework on all those distros. Yes, it's a disaster of complexity and something pretty much no one understands. But it's what we have.

Maybe a rearchitected replacement will land in systemd someday...

Or in pulseaudio as a master troll.

Would that be systemd-pamd or s-pamd?

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