fBSD5.1 and pam-mysql troubles

[Joe Lewis]

I apologize - I forgot to request an off-list answer - I'm not on the 
list.  Can anyone reply - again - directly to me this time?

In addition - I hunted around quite a bit - I can't find the pam source 
code, there's not a pam package installed (except for pam-mysql), and 
there is a library in /usr/lib called libpam.a - which contains all of 
the pam_*.o files, and there is no pam documentation in section 8 (got 
plenty of section 3, though, which is worthless in the circumstances). 
I am starting to get the impression that who ever set up the pam 
interface did it with a static mentality - I feel like I'm going to have 
to call it Static Pluggable Authentication Modules, and I'm sick of sPAM 
:).  Sorry for the wry humor so early in the week.

Joe

Joe Lewis wrote:

> Ladies and Gents;
> 
> I've got the following problem.  I installed PAM on my 5.1R version of 
> FreeBSD.  The modules are all stored in /usr/lib as /usr/lib/pam_*.so.2, 
> with a /usr/lib/pam_*.so as a symlink to the original (from default 
> port).  I've also installed the pam_mysql.so from the port with 
> pam_mysql-0.5 as the source.
> 
> I installed the config file for login only to prevent messing something 
> up.  When I try to login, I get an error in the /var/log/messages syslog 
> that reads, pardon my lack of memory, that it cannot find the pam 
> module.  It is in the same place as the other modules, with the exact 
> permissions, symlinks, and everything (the install put it in the wrong 
> place).  But I still get the error messages about not finding the module.
> 
> My question (may lead to a solution) : is the pam port linked to 
> statically?  Dynamically?  (Statically would mean I now have to 
> recompile it with some modifications, right?)
> 
> Joe
>