Hi Alex, On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 03:40:34PM -0700, Alex Stewart wrote: > Please excuse my newness, and I apologize if this is a FAQ or something, but I > haven't found much in the way of information on the subject in my looking > around the web.. > I'm looking to port the Linux-PAM package (or at least some portions of it) to > Solaris 8/10 (more specifically, port the modules so that they can work with > Solaris libpam) in order to be able to use a couple of the provided PAM modules on > some of our Solaris systems. Before I start, I wanted to check a couple of > things here to make sure I'm not doing more work than I need to.. > 1. First, has anybody else already done this, or is anyone working on it? > Alternately, does anybody have suggestions on how to go about this? > 2. Is there any interest here in making the Linux-PAM system portable to other > platforms (such as Solaris) in general? If I come up with some patches to make > things more cross-platform, is it worth trying to submit them back upstream, or > will people not be interested? I'm interested in seeing Linux-PAM as a whole be portable to other systems, but I don't think you'll have an easy time getting the current Linux-PAM modules to build cleanly against Solaris libpam; if nothing else, the pam_syslog() function is one that was long overdue and restoring the poor per-module code that it was designed to replace sounds like a non-starter to me. > Obviously, I'm mainly interested in the modules, but I figured it wouldn't > hurt to try to make libpam, etc, buildable at the same time. On brief > inspection, it doesn't look like this should be too hard.. I've noticed a > couple of typedefs and library functions (vsprintf, etc) which are missing > under Solaris, but those should be easy to fix. Sorry, did you mean a different function here than vsprintf? I can't find any references to vsprintf in the current Linux-PAM tree. > I also note that most of the modules make use of a bunch of "pam_modutil" > functions which are built into libpam.so, which are not part of Solaris' > PAM implementation, so I'm looking at needing to build those into a > separate (static or shared) library which can be linked against when > building under Solaris, to make the modules compatible with the standard > Solaris PAM implementation. Right, I imagine it should be the functions that are listed in libpam/libpam.map under LIBPAM_EXTENSION_1.0 or LIBPAM_MODUTIL_1.0. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.debian.org/ _______________________________________________ Pam-list mailing list Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
