[Moving this to blfs-dev, as the discussion is now moving towards book development]
Dan Nicholson wrote: > I just grepped all the sources for instances of pam or PAM. There are > only two places it's used. > > * xdm, where it will try to use PAM if it find's it and you can > create an /etc/pam.d/xdm. > > * in xorg-server, but there's no way to enable it through configure. > You'd have to manually define "-DUSE_PAM". But, then you > could have /etc/pam.d/xserver. I'm not sure why there's not an > easy way to enable this. I don't think anyone really uses it. I > remember checking and you can do the same thing in Xorg-6.9. > > I'll move the optional dep from libs to apps. Should I mention that > it's just for xdm? Should I mention the dependency in xorg-server, > even though you have to manually configure it? Thanks for fixing the PAM dependency, and I suppose that in parenthesis (used by XDM only) wouldn't hurt a bit. As far as xorg-server, if something can be mentioned easily and may be helpful to just one reader, than go ahead and do it. -- Randy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
