Douglas Bagnall wrote: > hi Rahul, server-devel, > > I've made a new pam_sotp RPM, which differs only in that it is > compiled with CFLAGS="-fno-stack-protector". I made this change > because the original was causing errors like this: > > PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_sotp.so): \ > /lib/security/pam_sotp.so: undefined symbol: __stack_chk_fail_local > > It makes me nervous to be turning off stack smashing checks on pam > modules, notwithstanding that this error seems to be caused by gcc > incompatibilities (-fstack-protector is newish) rather than any actual > deficiency. > > Does anyone have a better patch or understanding of the cause? In > similar looking cases Google suggests linking using gcc rather than > ld, but my rpm-fu is too weak to cause that.
I suggest posting to fedora-devel list and asking for help. Turning off security features makes you worry and quite rightfully so and it is not allowed by the Fedora packaging guidelines anyway. I offered to be a package monkey only to help OLPC and have no particular insight into the code to help you further. Rahul _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
