Randy McMurchy wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 01/13/07 19:38 CST: > > >> If you look on the Wiki on the PAM page, you should find all the info. >> I didn't really want to go into detail in the book since it gets kind >> of OT after a bit. I think the HAL page has more info on pam_console >> since that's really what it's needed for. >> > > I'm thinking that the pam_console and PAM consolehelper packages are > completely different. Joe's response turned me on to the package where > you can find consolehelper, but if you try to configure the package, > it complains that libuser is not installed. And libuser looks like > a package I'd rather not mention (like selinux). > > I'm thinking about removing the consolehelper dependency as it > appears to be very, very RedHat specific. > > Thoughts from others? Joe? > > libuser seems to be primarily redhat specific too. I could only find this, http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/fedora/development/source/SRPMS/libuser-0.54.7-2.src.rpm . And like consolehelper I have a tarball in my homedir on cross-lfs.org. http://cross-lfs.org/~jciccone/libuser-0.54.7.tar.gz
Libuser is very similar to shadow from what I can tell, I havn't played with it that much. As of removing usermode as a dependency. I only know of 2 packages that directly depend on consolehelper. Gnome Utilities-2.16.1 and GDM. Gnome Utilities uses it on gnome-system-log and GDM uses it on gdmsetup. The only thing it does is allows any user to run the program as some other user, usually (root). I kind of liked being able to edit my gdm configuration as my normal user without entering a password, but I've only used it once. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
