Re: IDS 10.0 32-bit and PAM

Hi, just to make sure that this is not the problem: IDS ...HCx versions are 32-bit applications to be run on a 64-bit OS. But as such they need 32-bit libraries. A PAM is implemented as a shared library that will be loaded at runtime by IDS. Therefore HCx-IDS will need a 32-bit version of the PAM, even though the OS is 64-bit. A 64-bit library implementation of the PAM will not work for HCx-IDS. Regards, Martin -- Martin Fuerderer IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany Information Management owner-informix-list@iiug.org wrote on 02.11.2005 19:19:07: > We are on 9.40.HC3 and the 3rd party software provider we get our IDS > through is moving to 10.0 within the next 2-4 months and they are not > going to support any 9.4 versions except the HC3 version. One of the > draw backs from getting you database from your 3rd party software > provider, you can't always have the latest and greatest. > > The problem we are having with PAM seems to be only related to 32-bit > version of IDS for HPUX the 64-bit version doesn't seem to have the > problem. Our 3rd party supplier will not provide 64-bit version of > their software so we are stuck with using IDS 32-bit version. > > I heard rumors that IDS 10.0 had most of the PAM coding rewritten and > not know if this is true or not was wondering if anyone knew for sure. > > What we where trying was to use Kerberos to authenticate with LDAP, > with IBM support we did a bunch of different configurations and I'm > can't remember what all we did. I did get an email the other day > someone got PAM working through Samba, so may try that route. All my > boss want is for me to get IDS to authenticate via LDAP, he doesn care > how, just get it done. > > John sending to informix-list

Matrin, This is a good point, to my knowledge IBM support and I looked at this and concluded that IDS & PAM are all 32-bit. Now I could be totally mis-remembering what we have checked over the last 11 months. Off the top of my head I'm not sure how to determin if a library was compiled in 32-bit or 64-bit, if I do a file /usr/lib/libpam.1 I get the follwoing which doesn't say much /usr/lib/libpam.1: s800 shared library -not stripped John