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

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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 <chip c99 org>
> Date:
> 03 Jul 2002 16:00:31 -0400
> To:
> gnome-list gnome org
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>
> 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:
>>
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>>>From: Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões <albie alfarrabio di uminho pt>
>>>To: gnome-list gnome org
>>>Cc: gnome-slackware gnome org
>>>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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