Building Linux PAM modules on OpenSolaris

Preface: I’m sure a good bit of this solution is sloppy, disorganized or just plain the wrong way to do things. I’m certainly welcoming suggestions from anyone more experienced at this. But hey, it works, which is more than I can say for most of the other stuff I’ve read on this, which was mostly aggregated from disorganized mailing lists and Sun forum postings. I’ve gone through something of an ordeal trying to get pam_listfile working on OpenSolaris. pam_list is a reasonable Solaris-native approximation, but it only works for users and NIS netgroups — not Unix groups. Obviously this isn’t … Continue Reading →