Although the Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE) 1/08 [19423]was just released, Senior SDN Writer Robert Eckstein's chronicle of his experience in installing SXDE 09/07 may still be of interest. He prefaces his piece by acknowledging that the greater part of his experience has involved work as a Java programmer rather than as an IT administrator.
Rich Teer has written a tutorial on writing Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) service modules for authentication and security services. He includes an example module and abundant code. The article's contents include service modules, service module requirements and the above-mentioned example service module.
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