Stewart Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 17:58 -0700, Brian Aker wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I worked out an example PAM authentication plugin this weekend. This
>> is about what I learned:
>>
>> Server:
>>
>> There is quite a bit more that needs to be done on the server right now:
>> 1) Final cleanup of old security context.
>> 2) THD needs to be split out sooner then later.
>> 3) We need to private'ize more of THD.
>> 4) We use a VOID pointer to pass in a structure to plugins for init/
>> finalize. I keep finding myself wondering if that should be a base
>> class that we inherit from (aka I am starting to see certain patterns
>> reoccurring in plugins).
>
> I'm increasingly of the view that teh plugin init function should then
> call functions in the server to register functionality.
>
> not the existing behaviour of casting then filling out the struct passed
> in as void*.
>
> e.g.
>
> struct auth_basic foo = { blah, blah blah };
>
> plugin_foo_init()
> {
> register_auth_module(&foo);
> register_func_module(&f);
> }
>
I second this: maybe because this is how the registry for MySQL is
designed to work. :)
Just my few cents,
Mats Kindahl
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