On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 06:40:30PM -0800, Will Johansson wrote:
> I recently experimented with cross-compiling for embedded devices, and
> sought to try out util-linux with OpenPAM instead of Linux-PAM because
> OpenPAM was simpler to cross-compile. Unfortunately for me, it did not
> work out of the box, so I decided to try to patch util-linux to support
> compiling against OpenPAM. Turned out to be a fairly simple exercise.
>
> This is the fruit of my efforts. There is a caveat, which I will
Applied, thanks.
> be happy to address if it's a problem. The patch's configuration does
> not support building if you happen to have both Linux-PAM and OpenPAM
> in your build paths. I could update it to prefer Linux-PAM by default.
> I'm not sure how it'd would work if OpenPAM libraries is also in the
> search path, as -lpam is used by both Linux-PAM and OpenPAM (probably
> undefined behavior).
>
> Either way, it should compile fine against Linux-PAM and OpenPAM.
> There are some unused variables in login.c, but seems to have to do
> with _HAVE_UT_TV, which is not the case in my configuration. I'm
> more than happy to provide a separate patch to wrap the unused
> variables with an #ifdef _HAVE_UT_TV.
I don't have OpenPAM, so I'm not able to verify usability, but it
would be nice to have build without warnings.
Karel
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