Hiya,
I read somewhere today actually that VMWare server didn't actually
require PAM, that it was a common misconception? I confess I can't remember
the article I read that in, but I'll try to find it and get back to you.
Thanks,
Zack.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Sutherland" <doug@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: dropline-gnome accessibility
>I went through a pam install from source on slackware recently
> because the new free vmware server will not work without it.
> It was annoying to get working initially because the pam config
> provided by vmware was not compatible with the pam built
> from source. Apparently most distros have pam but slack does
> not. Not sure how much it complicates thing altogether but for
> getting vmware working, once it was configured properly it
> was not a problem at all for me. PAM is an authentication
> system, so yes it does complicate authentication. Vmware
> uses it for authenticating access to those vmware processes
> over that funky local network it creates. More info on pam
> here
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/
>
> I don't know much about gnome because I've been very
> interested in it.
>
> -- Doug
>
>
> Zach wrote:
> I've heard some technical complaints about Dropline. One of those
> seems to be that it installs PAM, which isn't really something I'm
> familiar with. From what I gather, it complicates traditional ways of
> doing things considerably.
>
>
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