Hi Bob, On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Bob Niederman wrote: > I'm not any kind of PAM hacker, but I've started butchering form my own > purposes and have some questions. > First, my target systems are Redhet 6.0 and 6.2. The latest PAM source I > found for these at redhat was 0.72. I've made some changes for grins and > successfully 'make && make install', so that 's good. > Is this (0.72) too old to ask questions about? > If so, does redhat customize PAM or can I download the latest and greatest > from kernel.org and make && make install and expect it to work? 0.72 isn't too old to ask questions about, although you may find the answer to many questions is "that bug has been fixed; please download 0.75". :) RedHat does customize PAM somewhat heavily; a number of the PAM modules they ship are not integrated into the upstream sources. If you need these modules, you'll need to stick with RedHat's sources, or use the RedHat-provided binary modules together with the kernel.org PAM sources. Cheers, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
