I'm attaching a patch for enabling PAM authentication support. To keep the patch file small, I've not included the diffs to the files 'configure' and 'gnats/configure'. Use autoconf to generate these two files. If you need the generated files, let me know and I'll create another patch. PAM support can now be enabled by using '--enable-pam' switch to configure. With PAM support enabled, you can put an entry in the gantsd.user_access file as: :$p$: and the authentication for the user will be done against the configured PAM modules. The name of the PAM service is taken from the DEFAULT_GANTS_SERVICE define, so by default it should be 'support'. Hence, you can configure PAM by creating the file /etc/pam.d/support on RH Linux. I've tried to make appropriate changes to the documentation. Let me know if any other document requires update. I've done some preliminary testing on my RH 9.0 Linux. Please let me know if there's any problem with it. Pankaj Chad C. Walstrom wrote: > Pankaj K Garg wrote: > >>Is anyone signed up for adding PAM authentication support yet? If not, >>I can sign up for it. > > > No, no one has signed up for this yet. I placed your name in the TODO > list and updated it in CVS. I don't plan on making ChangeLog entries > for these files (.todo and TODO), though I will note the changes made in > the cvs log entry. Welcome aboard! I look forward to getting your > patches! -- Pankaj K Garg garg@zeesource.net 1684 Nightingale Avenue 408-373-4027 Suite 201 408-733-2737(fax) Sunnyvale, CA 94087 http://www.zeesource.net http://home.earthlink.net/~gargp