Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/security/pam-pwauth_suid
To: None <pkgsrc-changes@NetBSD.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 09/06/2007 18:55:26
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 12:12:10AM +0200, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> 
> > What about FreeBSD and DragonFly? Both use OpenPAM as well.
> 
> There are 2 open questions for me:
> -Do they already have a mechanism which fulfills the same purpose?
>  (eg Debian has)

Given that they use the same PAM implementation as NetBSD, no. I also
don't think that this question has any relevance.

> -What are the shared library naming/version conventions? Afaik this
>  is not part of the PAM specification. NetBSD needs a ".0", but
>  I have no idea what's needed on other systems.

All PAM modules are installed as foo.so.$version with a symlink to
foo.so. I think that is the most portable approach and I am not aware of
any platform having problems with that.

Joerg