[16111] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Profile include support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicolas Williams)
Mon Aug 23 14:55:45 2010
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:54:46 -0500
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@oracle.com>
To: Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu>
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 02:07:49PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> Greg, I'm sorry to be difficult, but I believe I may have discovered an
> additional requirement for this package.
>
> Debian and Redhat both support 64-bit and 32-bit binaries; I believe
> Solaris is in the same boat. To do this,you need to have the right
> plugin for the architecture in question. We're going to need some
> mechanism for handling that. I can see a couple of options:
For config files this is irrelevant. For plugins this is very relevant.
> 1) Allow some architecture specific directory such as libdirto be substituted into
> profile include statements.
>
> 2) Allow some architecture specific directory to be substituted into
> plugin paths.
>
> 3) Have plugin paths relative to libdir.
We used to use (1) in PAM in Solaris, but nowadays just use (3). (3) is
much simpler.
Nico
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