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  • From: "Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] does samba depend on Linux-PAM?
  • Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 01:33:57 -0700 (PDT)

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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