From e1f8bdafac5e1e1e3b025cca1a4bce741817eb22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jmarcus Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 21:53:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * Remove some more references to DB3, and mention exactly which versions of BDB we support as well as what is the current recommended version. * Clean up the PAM documentation some to make it less Linux specific. --- doc/DEVELOPER | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/DEVELOPER b/doc/DEVELOPER index 03d9ad34..2b5d8b55 100644 --- a/doc/DEVELOPER +++ b/doc/DEVELOPER @@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ Netatalk uses TCP Wrappers to authorize host access when using afpovertcp. It should be noted that if DDP is in use, the connection will still be allowed as TCP Wrappers do not impact DDP connections. -7. PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux) -Linux-PAM provides a flexible mechanism for authenticating +7. PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) +PAM provides a flexible mechanism for authenticating users. PAM was invented by SUN Microsystems. Author: Andrew Morgan @@ -141,9 +141,14 @@ administrator to choose how applications authenticate users. You can get the Linux PAM documentation and sources from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ -8 Berkeley DB version 3 +Netatalk also supports other standard PAM implementations such as OpenPAM. + +8 Berkeley DB Berkeley DB is a programmatic toolkit that provides fast, reliable, scalable, and mission-critical database support to software -developers. BDB 3 can downloaded from +developers. BDB can downloaded from http://www.sleepycat.com/download.html Netatalk's CNID database uses the library and header files from BDB. +Currently, Netatalk supports BDB 3.0.17, 3.2.9, 3.3.11, 4.0.14, and 4.1.25. +The recommended version is 3.3.11 as that is the version on which most +testing has been done. -- 2.39.2