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

[Richard Geoffrion]

Cameron, Thomas wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kelledin [mailto:kelledin+NTLUG at skarpsey.dyndns.org]
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 6:37 PM
>> To: NTLUG Discussion List
>> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Where is PAM? --or-- What slackware
>> won't do foryou...
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday 25 November 2003 05:29 pm, Cameron, Thomas wrote:
>>> I don't know about the version, but adding PAM to a non-pam
>>> distro involves re-compiling an AMAZING amount of stuff - from
>>> login to the ftpd.  IMHO it is probably not worth the effort.
>>> If you need PAM, get RH9, Fedora or RHEL3.
>>
>> Well, you don't have to recompile everything at once.  In the
>> case of Slackware, anything you don't recompile against PAM will
>> just continue using the passwd/shadow database served up by
>> glibc.  You can install PAM for the one package that needs it,
>> then other packages can be recompiled piecemeal as you feel like
>> it.
>
> Very valid point, should've pointed that out.

which is, of course, exactly what I want to do.   Personally I stay away
from PAM as much as possible.  I only need it to get the VMWARE GSX server
working under Slackware.....and of course the remote console feature of
VMWARE requires libpam.so.0 (or something like that)

I will NOT put a Red Hat server into production unless absolutely FORCED
into it. (i.e.  www.rainingdata.com)  I *HAVE* been considering SUSE though.

Thanks.  I'll try the PAM install tomorrow. (may I not crap out my server)
--
Richard