[NTLUG:Discuss] Where is PAM? --or-- What slackware won't do for you...

[Kelledin]

On Tuesday 25 November 2003 04:11 pm, Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> Slackware is not a PAM enabled distro.  That's what I like
> about it. However, Slackware is not a PAM enabled distro....so
> for those instances where a commercial product needs
> PAM....Slackware users are S.O.L.
>
> So I went looking for PAM, or Linux-PAM.   Am I correct that
> the latest version of PAM is dated 9.23.2002!  That's over a
> year old!  Did I find the latest PAM source when I went to
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/pre/library/ ??

Yes.  Latest version is indeed 0.77, released over a year ago.  
Linux-PAM _used_ to be a real bear to compile, so a lot of 
distros (like RedHat and PLD) got in the habit of maintaining 
their own separate PAM implementations based on older versions 
of what you found.

Fortunately, the generic Linux-PAM is now easy to compile and is 
quite stable.  There's a short step-by-step guide for compiling 
it here, if you need help:

http://www.ca.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/5.0/postlfs/linux_pam.html

-- 
Kelledin
"If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does 
it still cost four figures to fix?"