PAM - Kerberos issues

[Madhusudan Singh]

Matt Payton wrote:

> Madhusudan Singh wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>>         I am trying to install an openafs server (well, trying to
>>         configure
>> it) as a MIT kerberos 5 client (authentication in a realm other than the
>> cell name) on a Slackware 10.1 machine running kernel 2.4.29. Well, Slack
>> does not include PAM, so I installed it (under /usr/local/linux-pam)
>> *after* installing openafs and kerberos 5. However, I do not see
>> pam_krb5.so and such libraries created
>> in /usr/local/linux-pam/lib/security. I wish to know what I should do to
>> get these libraries to compile (in case they are needed).
>> 
>> Thanks.
> 
> Shouldn't the PAM module be part of kerberos ?  I think PAM includes
> just the base other apps/packages use to build their own PAM libs, which
> then go in /usr/local/linux-pam/lib/security ( or wherever...).
> 
> I'd think you'd want to install PAM, *then* compile kerberos so it
> includes PAM support, and builds the required libs...
> 
> Just a guess though, since I've never added PAM support to Slack.
> 

Thanks for your response. How do I tell kerberos installation where to find
the compiled pam modules ?