Has anyone created PAM packages for Slackware 14.1 (ideally multilib)?

My employer uses a VPN solution (Checkpoint SNX) that requires PAM to be installed on the client machine.

I built packages for 14.0 using the Slackbuild that was included in extra/ at the time. If no one else has already done that for 14.1, I'll try just building against the same Slackbuild/patches, but if someone else has already done it, I'd love to know.

On a side note, with PAM no longer in extra/ it seems like it would be a good candidate to go on Slackbuilds.org.

Thanks,

Dave

Or load up virt-manager from Slackbuilds, create a VM for a distro that uses PAM and use that to connect to work.

Which is what I do, since my employer supports debian/ubuntu for some reason. Since I'm running something else to run *bleeping* Windows at work, I don't feel especially violated.

pam and pam_unix2 are available in MSB under testing directory

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A better question... why do you need PAM in the first place?

The OP stated that his employer's VPN solution required PAM.

well, to actually be useful, PAM needs many system components to be rebuilt to use it so it's really not suitable to be hosted on SBo: Vincent Batts started a project to integrate it in Slackware some time ago and ported it through various versions of Slackware

http://www.slackware.com/~vbatts/pam/

ATM seems to be updated for Slackware-14.0.

Very true. PAM literally requires a good portion of the system be rebuilt in several key points around it, hence why many distributions do not like to include it. It's very invasive software and honestly I don't recommend it because if you screw up anything in PAMs configuration (even a small honest mistake) it will lock you out of the system including root access requiring either a chroot in from a rescue disk, or a full re-installation. It's a good security software package, but it's just too dangerous and can backfire.

Unless you don't have any other choice, you'd be wise to try to research other security measures that don't involve using PAM.

there are 2 different kind of pam implementations.

1. as a system wide implementation.
2. as a program implementation.

You can use build pam for your vpn, and you dont have to use it for your ssh, or ftp logins for example.
pam stands for pluggable authentication module.

and you dont need your whole system to be rebuild.
only shadow is required to be rebuild.