Re: PAM Authentication Patch, take one... - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Dominic J. Eidson
Subject Re: PAM Authentication Patch, take one...
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.21.0108281558010.26153-100000@morannon.the-infinite.org
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In response to Re: PAM Authentication Patch, take one...  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Dominic J. Eidson writes:
>
> > Attached is the new and revised version of the PAM authentication patch.
> >
> > This will only send a password request to the frontend, if a password is
> > required.
>
> pam_strerror() should be used a few more times, rather than just saying
> "Error!".  Also, the configure.in snippet seems wrong.  You add
> -I$pam_prefix/include/security to $INCLUDES and then you #include
> <security/pam_appl.h>.  This whole thing is probably unnecessary, since
> PAM is a system library on the systems where it exists, so the headers
> and libraries are found automatically, unlike OpenSSL and
> Kerberos.

Will fix all of this and resubmit.

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Dominic J. Eidson
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