Hey there,
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<h3> Timeline: </h3>
Started circa the release of Slackware-13.1, 
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was the hackings on Linux-PAM integreation to Slackware Linux.
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To date it has just keep up with the -current development branch.
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<p>
<h3> Overview: </h3>
This is the addition of two packages (pam, cracklib), and the rebuild of a series of packages,
to overhaul the authentication in Slackware Linux, using <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/">Linux-PAM</a>
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<h4> UPDATE: </h4>
During Slackware-13.37 RC 3.14
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PV has included the SlackBuild for Linux-PAM as /extra/sources/pam/
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to generate a single *.so for the google-chrome build
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<p>
<h3> Instruction: </h3>
There are NOTES.txt and README in the root directory, along with a couple of scripts
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crafted up for my use. The directories a/, ap/, kde/, l/, n/ and xap/ are the source for the SlackBuilds.
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The pkgs/ has Slackware packages for the -current development branch (i486 and x86_64).
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To download, use lftp or rsync. You can download everything, or only the packages, if you are interested in helping debug these builds.
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A scripty example of downloading and installing only for, could be:
<pre>
<blockquote>
if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
  case "$( uname -m )" in
    i?86) ARCH=i486 ;;
    *) ARCH=$( uname -m ) ;;
  esac
fi
mkdir -p ~/pam
cd ~/pam
lftp -c "open http://hashbangbash.com/downloads/pam/pkgs/; mirror $ARCH"
cd $ARCH
upgradepkg --install-new *.t?z
slackpkg new-config
</blockquote>
</pre>
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<p>
<h3> Feedback: </h3>
If are willing to subject your machine to testing, then feel free to send back feedback :)
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You can reach me on IRC, or on email. vbatts (at) slackware.com or (at) hashbangbash.com
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<p>
<h3> Download: </h3>
sources and packages are available at:
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<a href="http://hashbangbash.com/downloads/pam/" target="_blank">http://hashbangbash.com/downloads/pam/</a>
<a href="rsync://hashbangbash.com/pam/" target="_blank">[RSYNC]</a>
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<p>
<br/>
Take care,
<br/>
vb
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