Samba & Including libpam.so.0 in /usr/lib64
by DSH_NH from LinuxQuestions.org on (#53P5S)
I recently installed the official Slackware package of Samba (samba-4.12.2-x86_64-2.txz) and the installation went smoothly. The first time I ran it, I had a hiccup that said it needed libicuuc.so.67. I solved that problem fairly easily installing icu4c-compat-67.1-x86_64-1alien.txz. The next hiccup was more of a roadblock. When I next ran Samba, it now indicated that it could not find libpam.so.0.
After considerable time looking for libpam.so.0, I stumbled across the drumz's post of 2017 in these forums on how to extract that one file from the libpam package. That solved my problem.
Since Samba is a major and often used package, and at least one other package needs it as well, Matlab, is there any reason why this one file could not be included in /usr/lib64 with the full Slackware -current install? I am not interested in PAM, and if it were not for drumz's post, I would probably still be floundering or trying to install a lot of files on a trial and error basis that might not work and definitely would not be needed.
I did read the post about PAM about to be merged in -current" so perhaps this is a short time problem, but I for one do not know that for sure, and as a strictly command line server user of Slackware, I am not sure I would want a full install of PAM to obtain that one file.
After considerable time looking for libpam.so.0, I stumbled across the drumz's post of 2017 in these forums on how to extract that one file from the libpam package. That solved my problem.
Since Samba is a major and often used package, and at least one other package needs it as well, Matlab, is there any reason why this one file could not be included in /usr/lib64 with the full Slackware -current install? I am not interested in PAM, and if it were not for drumz's post, I would probably still be floundering or trying to install a lot of files on a trial and error basis that might not work and definitely would not be needed.
I did read the post about PAM about to be merged in -current" so perhaps this is a short time problem, but I for one do not know that for sure, and as a strictly command line server user of Slackware, I am not sure I would want a full install of PAM to obtain that one file.