DJ Lucas wrote: > On 10/30/2011 12:02 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: >>> On 30/10/11 09:43, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >>>> On Oct 29, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: >>>> >>>>> The Linux-PAM build fails for me, most likely due to the Bekkeley DB >>>>> upgrade to 5.2.26. >>>>> I get the following error: >>>>> >>>>> .libs/pam_userdb.o: In function `user_lookup': >>>>> /sources/Linux-PAM-1.1.3/modules/pam_userdb/pam_userdb.c:159: undefined >>>>> reference to `__db_ndbm_open' >>>> Try building db with --enable-dbm. >>> Thanks, that worked. As mentioned by DJ in the previous post, I think >>> this should be included in the standard build. >> I don't generally use PAM, so I don't mind any changes to it. I'm >> curious though. What do others get from PAM? I don't see any >> advantages over plain shadow for a direct terminal or ssh login unless >> you have a lot of different users trying to login and you are trying to >> control that via ldap. >> >> For me where there are only a very few users, e.g. 3 on a server, PAM >> just gets in the way. >> >> I feel the same way about tcpwrappers and xinetd.
> Were you wanting to remove it from the book? No. I can see where all those could be useful to some users. I was just stating an opinion about when those packages are useful. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
