Slackware PAM, LDAP

[Andrew Afliatunov]

Terry Davis wrote:

>All,
>
>I am not up to speed on what reasons PAM is not included in the Slackware
>distro, and I've read quite a bit of the posting and etc available on the 'net
>about it, but so much is very dated, I am writing to get a leg up on it.
>
>
>	- is it possible to get it working on Slack without too much work
>
>  
>
Yes. Install Linux-PAM, nss-ldap and pam-ldap. Then recompile software 
where you need pam with its support (imap, ftp, etc.). Add appropriate 
files from pam-ldap distr. to /etc/pam.d. We have Slackware 9.1 and 
imapd and proftpd compiled to use pam to authenticate in ldap.

-- 
Andrew.