Bug 196656
| Summary: | New port: security/hs-pam | ||||||
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| Product: | Ports & Packages | Reporter: | martin | ||||
| Component: | Individual Port(s) | Assignee: | freebsd-haskell (Nobody) <haskell> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | CC: | pgj | ||||
| Priority: | --- | ||||||
| Version: | Latest | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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Have you been using this port or are you planning to use this in the near future? I think I have already met this hackage before, but things like the definition of the `checkAccount` function [1] scared me. It looks also old and unmaintained. [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pam-0.1/docs/src/System-Posix-PAM.html#checkAccount I am thinking about writing a display manager in Haskell and collecting stuff to make it possible. I will certainly need PAM bindings at some places, at least the authentication function. I verified that it works (positive and negative test). Yes, this checkAccount function is certainly crap, but it does not look like it's used somewhere and I see that it's useless. Do you have any alternative to do system authentication on FreeBSD from Haskell code? This is the only library I have found so far. Right off the top of my head, I cannot tell you any better alternatives either unfortunately. I was just curious if you are fully aware of its state and you have any specific reason to include this in the Ports Collection. But I do not have any objections in general. I cannot decide now, after you pointed out the problem. Since the module has got a permissive license (BSD 3-clause), I could integrate it directly into my project (and eventually fix it) without having a dependency on it. It's also acceptable, I think. I also just need the one authentication function that works. You can close my request without adding hs-pam, if you want. It is not urgent/necessary to have it in the ports tree. Okay, let us not include this port for now. |
Created attachment 151483 [details] port directory contents: security/hs-pam Hi, I've made a new port: security/hs-pam. The software makes PAM bindings available for Haskell. It is not documented very well, but from the source and from the types, I could make a small test program that checked its functionality. It worked for the purpose of authentication.