Installing PAM in Slackware

simopal6 · 08-19-2007, 08:13 AM

Hello!
I've just installed proftpd as FTP server on my pc, and i found out it requires PAM for authentication. I've just read that Slackware doesn't include PAM (and this probably explains why proftpd is using linux user accounts), but i would like to use a MySQL database for ftp authentication.

Is it possible to install PAM? And i don't want PAM to manage logins, i want to keep 'shadow'..

Thanks!

Alien Bob · 08-19-2007, 02:21 PM

If you install the proftpd package from the 'n' package series, you should be able to use the shadow file for authentication. PAM is not needed at all.

Eric

Dankles · 08-19-2007, 03:22 PM

If memory serves me right, Slackware refuses to include PAM in the Distro do to the history of problems that PAM has created with other distros.