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Subject: Re: Retiring static libpam support
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

>Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> writes:
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>>I gues it would be ok if the basic binary is static and the PAM
>>modules are loaded using dlopen.
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>You can't load dynamic objects from a static binary.  It doesn't have
>a working dlopen() (since dlopen() is implemented by the run-time
>loader), and even if it did, there is no relocation table there to
>resolve dependencies in the dynamic object.
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>

so basically that would screw us.

>DES
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