From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 10 17:26:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A2AB37BC11 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:26:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.47.188.33] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id wa101890 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 20:26:28 -0500 Received: from Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA00407; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 20:26:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) From: Walter Brameld To: cjclark@home.com, "Crist J. Clark" , Sandip Srivastava Subject: Re: X won't run after upgrade Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 20:25:51 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Mark Ovens , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000309231719.D80084@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <20000310150504.A18448@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <20000310150504.A18448@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00031020261907.00247@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Crist J. Clark wrote: > 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 > And you thought it was only good for cooking..... -- Walter Brameld Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? Walter: Where the hell am I? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message