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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

This can easily be done.

Have this:

optional_depends "Linux-PAM"           \
                 "--flag-for-swat"     \
                 "--flag-for-no-swat"  \
                 "for SWAT support"

in the DEPENDS file...that's what this is for, right?

-One of Four
a.k.a. sandalle

Geoffrey Derber said:
> I came to that conlusion about a month ago, but at the same time, I
> don't want PAM on my system.  So that means I can't use swat, but there
> are other methods for configuring samba (webmin will do it).  So leave
> it as an optional depends but make a note that you do need it if you
> want to use swat.
>
> Geoff
>
> Jeremy Kolb wrote:
>> hey all.  I was wondering if any of you have been able to get into
>> swat  from your browsers without Linux-PAM installed.  I couldn't for
>> som  reason no matter even after recasting samba about 20 billion
>> times.  Since casting Linux-PAM it works fine.  I was just wondering
>> if it  indeed should depend on Linux-PAM or if my authentication
>> problems  stemmed from something else.
>>
>> Jeremy
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