Re: Activate Linux PAM

From: Christophe Vandeplas (christophe_at_vandeplas.com)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:24:37 +0100

On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 04:24 -0800, wolf_guru wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a linux box that is not running PAM. It is a minimised
> distribution of RedHat 8.0. I want to set this to start using PAM. How
> can I tell Linux to look into PAM configuration files (/etc/pam.d ?!)
> Best Regards
>

You have a rpm based distribution,
the easiest way is just to install pam using rpm -ivh
thepampackages.rpm

if you really want to compile if from scratch I recommend you this text:
http://hints.linuxfromscratch.co.uk/hints/pam.txt

Greets

Christophe 

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