[NTLUG:Discuss] Where is PAM? --or-- What slackware won't do for you...

[Kelledin]

On Tuesday 25 November 2003 05:29 pm, Cameron, Thomas wrote:
> I don't know about the version, but adding PAM to a non-pam
> distro involves re-compiling an AMAZING amount of stuff - from
> login to the ftpd.  IMHO it is probably not worth the effort. 
> If you need PAM, get RH9, Fedora or RHEL3.

Well, you don't have to recompile everything at once.  In the 
case of Slackware, anything you don't recompile against PAM will 
just continue using the passwd/shadow database served up by 
glibc.  You can install PAM for the one package that needs it, 
then other packages can be recompiled piecemeal as you feel like 
it.

-- 
Kelledin
"If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does 
it still cost four figures to fix?"