PAM with OpenSSL - urgent help needed

[Thorsten Kukuk]

On Wed, Feb 02, Boris Breslav wrote:

> Hi
> is there any reason that I should not use OpenSSL library (libcrypto) with 
> PAM?
> The same piece of code works in a command line program and fails with my 
> custom PAM module.
> I compile the module like this:
> gcc -c -fpic -I/usr/local/ssl/include mymodule.c
> gcc -shared mymodule.o -o pam_mymodule.so -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -lcrypto
> 
> Could it be a problem that /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a is a static 
> library?

Linking a static library into a shared one is always a mistake and
should never be made.
Else I can only say I had never problems with that.

  Thorsten

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