Re: enabling option pam for security/openssh on NetBSD

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 07:20:11AM +0100, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
 > security/openssh has pam option that is currently only allowed on Linux.
 > A comment in options.mk says it causes uninvestigated memory faults.
 > 
 > I gave it a try on NetBSD and it seems to work fine, provided one does
 > not mix base system OpenSSL and pkgsrc OpenSSL in the various parts
 > that link together in OpenSSH: for instance, sshd links to libcrypto,
 > and libpam can load pam_ldap, which links to libldap and libcrypto
 > again.
 > 
 > But the same principle applies to many other packages. If nobody objects, 
 > I will make the pam option available on NetBSD.

That seems like a fine idea... for after the freeze.

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David A. Holland
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