Re: [Fwd: Re: GDM: and if I don't use PAM?]

Thanx

Sam Steele wrote:
 > didn't realize this one went to multiple lists.. :)
 >
 > -Sam
 >
 >
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 > Subject:
 > Re: GDM: and if I don't use PAM?
 > From:
 > Sam Steele <[email protected]>
 > Date:
 > 03 Jul 2002 16:00:31 -0400
 > To:
 > [email protected]
 >
 >
 > Configure will correctly detect shadow passwords on a Slackware system
 > and enable them.  I had filed a bug on this, the problem is with how
 > automake generates the Makefile.
 >
 > In daemon/Makefile you will need to make sure $(LIBS) is the first
 > argument to the link command, so that the system's crypt() is used
 > instead of another one (MD5 vs DES or another encryption scheme).
 > Currently it is the last search path instead of the first.
 >
 > -Sam
 >
 > On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 14:48, Aschwin van der Woude wrote:
 >
 >>The configure script of gdm detects if pam is installed and will use it
 >>when it can IIRC.
 >>It will probably fall back to basic passwd authentication, so you will
 >>need to explicitly tell configure to use shadow passwords (
 >>--enable-authentication-scheme=shadow) if you are using those.
 >>
 >>Hope this helps,
 >>
 >>-A.
 >>
 >>On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 17:55, Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões wrote:
 >>
 >>>--
 >>>Alberto Manuel B. Simoes
 >>>Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho
 >>>http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/~albie - http://numexp.sf.net
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 >>>
 >>
 >>>From: Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões <[email protected]>
 >>>To: [email protected]
 >>>Cc: [email protected]
 >>>Subject: GDM: and if I don't use PAM?
 >>>Date: 03 Jul 2002 15:43:21 +0100
 >>>
 >>>
 >>>Hi
 >>>
 >>>How can I use gdm (well, gdm2) if my system does not uses PAM? More
 >>>precisly, I'm using slackware.
 >>>
 >>>Thanks for any idea! (no, I will never remove slackware :))
 >>>
 >>>Alberto
 >>>--
 >>>Alberto Manuel B. Simoes
 >>>Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho
 >>>http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/~albie - http://numexp.sf.net
 >>
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