From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 22 23: 0: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0879914DAA for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 23:00:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA12518; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 22:58:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id WAA75688; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 22:58:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 22:58:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199907230558.WAA75688@vashon.polstra.com> To: Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk Subject: Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD, and userfs too. In-Reply-To: <19990722111605.C49393@palmerharvey.co.uk> References: <19990719204417.A5796@palmerharvey.co.uk> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <19990722111605.C49393@palmerharvey.co.uk>, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:59:59PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: > > > > PAM is also "using masses of weird shared objects" but nevertheless it's > > quite usable > > By statically linked binaries? Our PAM implementation works for static binaries too. See the sources for the gory details. Basically it creates a library that includes all the possible modules, and selects the right one at runtime. There's some linker set magic involved. Concerning "masses of weird shared objects," you'd really better get used to it. It was the wave of the future 10 years ago. It's not going away. Dynamic linking provides flexibility and modularity that you just can't get from static linking. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message