> PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is what RedHat uses for anything > to do with security (login, password change, xdm, chsh...). The > easiest way to get her, short of installing RedHat (I like my SlackHat > system) is to get rpm from ftp.redhat.com or a mirror - somewhere near > the top of the site, in a directory named code, are an rpm-?.?.tar.gz > you can get and compile, and an rpm-?.?.i386.tar.gz binary, if you > don't have it already, then there are a number of rpm's to do with pam. > Be sure to get, install and _test_ the libpam and pamconfig ones before > you install anything like login that depends on them, or you'll risk > locking yourself out of your own system. > > I've done this, it's not particularly hard, so I can develop security- > type software that also works on RedHat. i've just thought about it. does that really mean you can only upgrade to kernel 2.2.1 by using rpm when you have shadowed passwords? sounds not very logical, does it? gernot -- ,---------------------------------------------------------------------------. | dipl.ing. gernot kerschbaumer | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | vereinsgasse 32/12 ,-----' fax: +43 1 2160493 | | a-1020 wien | homepage: http://stud2.tuwien.ac.at/~e9018967/ | `---------------------------------------------------------------------------'
