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Date:      Fri, 23 Jul 1999 16:30:23 +0930 (CST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kkenn@rebel.net.au>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD, and userfs too.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907231629470.87625-100000@morden.rebel.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <199907230558.WAA75688@vashon.polstra.com>

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On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, John Polstra wrote:

> > On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:59:59PM +0700, Max Khon wrote:
> > > 
> > > PAM is also "using masses of weird shared objects" but nevertheless it's
> > > quite usable
> > 
> > By statically linked binaries?
> 
> Our PAM implementation works for static binaries too.  See the
> sources for the gory details.  Basically it creates a library that
> includes all the possible modules, and selects the right one at
> runtime.  There's some linker set magic involved.

This means you can't add in a new module without recompiling the static
library, correct? That seems to defeat the purpose of PAM being modular
for the static case :-(

Kris



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