Password sync plugin, and questions about plugin criticality

[Nicolas Williams]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 05:06:59PM +1000, Luke Howard wrote:
> Rather than having an initialization function register callbacks
> manually?

Yes.

> Sounds fine to me -- although it might be useful to consider how
> a single DSO can implement multiple plugins (obviously there are
> many ways to skin a cat...).

By exporting the necessary symbols for all of them.

> Sure, I was just explaining how SLAPI did things, a well-known
> entry point is fine too.

Example of what I propose: PAM, where plug-ins simply export function
symbols named pam_sm_{authenticate, acct_mgmt, setcred, open_session,
close_session}.

Nico
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