Subject: Re: PAM and su -K
To: Roland Dowdeswell <elric@imrryr.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/22/2005 13:14:31
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On Jan 22, 2005, at 12:17 PM, Roland Dowdeswell wrote:
> Well, actually it does not follow because there is no reason to
> suppose that one could not build a static libpam.a which contains
> only a set of predefined modules in a certain order.  When I looked
> at Linux pam this was possible.  Do not make the mistake of presuming
> that because pam can dynamically load modules that its only mode
> of operation ever will be that.

Indeed.  The PAM in NetBSD has static module support for libpam.a.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>


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