On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > > > > o The FreeBSD modules live in /usr/lib/, not /lib/security/. > > > Bad change IMHO. All in /usr/lib clutters the lib dir. Most distribs / > > > installs put separate things in seperate libs in /usr/lib. I personaly > > > like that, some of you might not. > > It is "FreeBSD Standard", and anything else would surprise FreeBSD admins. > /lib/security is a defacto Solaris (is it ?) and Linux standard. Most > programs expect them in /lib/security. /Most/ programs should never be accessing PAM modules directly, as it's the job of the PAM library to arbitrate access to the modules. And FWIW, I don't think my criticism of putting modules in /usr/lib represents OS evangelism so much as it represents evangelism of cross-platform consistency and of freedom to type 'ls' in a directory without maxing out my xterm's buffer. ;) But the decision's been made, so it's one we should definitely try to work with. Cheers, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
