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Date:      Wed, 30 May 2001 23:23:09 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG, kris@obsecurity.org
Subject:   Re: PAM, S/Key and authentication schemes.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105302316060.18042-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200105290244.f4T2iNP21562@vashon.polstra.com>

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On Mon, 28 May 2001, John Polstra wrote:

> In article <20010528174728.A39588@xor.obsecurity.org>,
> Kris Kennaway  <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > 
> > We also compile all of the PAM modules included in the base system
> > into a static libpam which allows statically-linked binaries to work,
> > up to a point (they won't work if the system administrator tries to
> > use a third-party PAM module)
> 
> We used to do this and probably still do.  But I haven't tried it
> lately.

I build the entire world static (except for the broken perl part), so
I try this (without third-party PAM modules) most days.  Support for
this in -unpatched-current is only broken in a few places now (including
in a central place so it may be broken everywhere).

Bruce


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