Re^2: Building a web-based system administration interface in Perl

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be pure perl

be able to use PAM for authentication and authorisation

Somehow these two points look rather contradictory to me. So you want to have a pure Perl library that interfaces a C library (PAM)?

I think that's possible with syscall and/or DynaLoader magic, but somehow I doubt that it'll be easier, more maintainable or less evil than the alternative.

But I guess we all have our dreams...

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Re^3: Building a web-based system administration interface in Perl by afoken (Chancellor) on Apr 08, 2009 at 20:15 UTC
You are right. PAM and "pure perl" are nearly incompatible. If the tool would interface with PAM, it should do so using a classic XS-based module, preferably an already existing and well-tested one. Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]

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