Re: ANNOUNCE: Shadow + Red Hat (and more) RPMS and source now

[Cristian Gafton <gafton sorosis ro>]

On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Marek Michalkiewicz wrote:

> libpam will not replace libcrypt.  All it takes to use libcrypt is to
> link the program with it.  It will be even easier as soon as ld.so
> 1.8.x goes out of beta testing - just edit /etc/ld.so.preload and no
> programs need to be rebuilt at all.  I don't think it is messy.

Or simplier, integrate it in the pam_unix directly. A shorter path, IMHO.

> One thing I can't do with libcrypt is to port it to the Alpha and make
> sure it gives the same results (I heard that even the regular crypt()
> had this problem for a while).  Anyone?

If all goes well, I should get the memory for my AXP 266 motherboard in 
about two weeks (from Digital). Add a week of getting used with Alpha 
arhitecture...

> sooner (especially now that it should receive more testing from
> people using the just released shadow RPMs).

Although I am biased myself toward shadow, we have to admit that PAM is 
nicer thing to have.

> It is possible to have some applications (like login) use PAM and
> others (like ftpd) still the traditional shadow API.  So the next
> Red Hat release could well be half-PAM-based :-).

Maybe as a devel tree only. Otherwise we will be invaded with questions 
about why xxx don't support PAm, etc...

		Cristian Gafton
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