On Wed, Oct 17, 2007, Douglas S. Summers wrote:
> Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007, Douglas S. Summers wrote:
>>> I had proposed an addition for sudo.spec to include an option for using
>>> AIX
>>> authentication (--with-authenticate). When I installed 1.6.9p4 it was
>>> there; now with 1.6.9p6 it's gone again. Any reason why?
>> According to the version control system there was _never_ a
>> --with-authenticate option in sudo.spec. I guess your old 1.6.9p4 was
>> a locally patched version only. The official OpenPKG "sudo" package
>> never provided this. Can you repost your proposed patch? Or is it such
>> AIX specific that it cannot be reasonably taken over into the official
>> OpenPKG "sudo" package?
>
> Add --with-authenticate option for AIX. This seems to work much better than
> PAM.
>
> # package options
> %option with_aixauth no
>
> # add to end of configure line
> %if "%{with_aixauth}" == "yes"
> --with-authenticate \
> %endif
Ah, I see. But as this %option is entirely platform-specific I don't
think it qualifies for being integrated directly into the package.
Because %options should be generic all usable across all platforms. The
only thing we could do is to _always_ build with --with-authenticate
under AIX (without any %option). Would this make sense? I don't know
this --with-authenticate in detail. What does it actually do?
Ralf S. Engelschall
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