Anyone using Linux-PAM on 5.x?

[Tony Pagliocco]

Joe Lewis wrote:

> Hello, all;
>
> I would like to take a moment of your time.  I was having some heavy 
> frustrations on preparing a FreeBSD 5.1 server for handling centrally 
> located accounts using OpenPAM, particularly due to my inability to 
> locate good documentation on it.  I found that the problems :
>
> Oct  5 13:04:15 sharktooth login: in openpam_load_module(): no
> pam_mysql.so found
> Oct  5 13:04:15 sharktooth login: pam_start(): failed to load module
>
> Were NOT due to the misplacement of the module.  Proper permissions 
> were in place.  The concerns I had were resolved when the following 
> individuals (many, many, many thanks to these guru's) :
>
>   Kris Kennaway
>   Mikko Työläjärvi
>   Nick Rogness
>
> Gave me pointers, advice, and properly illustrated what the problem 
> was.  For the archives sake, I am posting the results of that hassle 
> here. The first of the problems were based on the fact that I was 
> trying to port pam_mysql.  This was failing because the mysqlclient 
> library wasn't being located when the pam libraries were loaded.  
> There had to be an -R/usr/local/lib/mysql added to the 
> compilation/linker commands.
>
> Then I ran into the errors :
>
> Oct  6 19:22:09 sharktooth login: in openpam_dispatch(): pam_mysql.c: 
> no pam_sm_authenticate()
> Oct  6 19:22:09 sharktooth login: in openpam_dispatch(): pam_mysql.c: 
> no pam_sm_setcred()
>
> The functions were defined properly, and I used a number of different 
> methods.  That's when I was pointed to the Makefile as the problem.  
> The end result switched from using ld as the linker to libtool.  There 
> are still bugs to work out, but the module is beginning to function.
>
> Again, I offer a sincere thanks to those individuals listed above for 
> their responses.
>
> Joe Lewis
>
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god i cant get off this no matter how much i try....pls someone help me lol