Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 2/10/07, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Dan Nicholson wrote:
>>> * 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.
>
> <snip>
>
>> 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.
>
> Here was the original thread about this in Xorg-6.9.0 from a few months back:
>
> http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support/2006-October/061281.html
>
> I don't think there's a real easy way to do this in xorg-server. You'd
> have to manually define -DUSE_PAM and then link in -lpam and
> -lpam_misc to the appropriate libraries. I think I'm just gonna leave
> it out. If it ever gets more support upstream, I'll add it in.
The reason that this might be needed is to use PAM for authentication
when a remote system is opening a window on the local server. Most of
the time when I do that, it is over ssh so the security is taken care of
that way. Perhaps it would be a way for an administrator to pop up a
window on all displays, but that type of capability seems to be pretty
exotic to me.
However, looking at a commercial distro:
$ ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libz.so.1 (0x0000003198a00000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/tls/libm.so.6 (0x0000003197c00000)
libpam.so.0 => /lib64/libpam.so.0 (0x0000003198400000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x0000003197e00000)
libpam_misc.so.0 => /lib64/libpam_misc.so.0 (0x0000003198000000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 (0x0000003197900000)
libaudit.so.0 => /lib64/libaudit.so.0 (0x0000003198e00000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003197700000)
-- Bruce
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