From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 10 12: 1:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DF3D37BA4A for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 12:01:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA18476; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:05:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:05:04 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Sandip Srivastava Cc: Mark Ovens , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X won't run after upgrade Message-ID: <20000310150504.A18448@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <20000309231719.D80084@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from ssriva1@alumni.umbc.edu on Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 09:31:53AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 09:31:53AM -0500, Sandip Srivastava wrote: > I did as Mark Owens said. I did a rebuild and said no to compile with PAM > support. After this it worked fine. What is PAM anyway, why doesn't it > work with FreeBSD? Thanks for the help. Pluggable Authentification Modules. % man 5 pam % apropos pam As a complete aside, has anyone else noticed that the OpenSSH port puts a pam_ssh.so file in /usr/lib (and _not_ in /usr/local/lib)? I was a little surprised there's never been an uproar about a security- tool port installing files in /usr/lib. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message