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Hi ALL,
Is there a 64bit 'passwd' program available for Solaris 10(64bit) AMD
opteron. We Installed Solaris 10 (64bit) on AMD opteron. kernel is in
64bit. Both 32 and 64 bit libraries are available. But there is only
32bit 'passwd' program. We need use a 64bit pam module. This cannot be
used with 32 bit passwd.

Regards
Kiran

No, there is no 64 bit passwd program.

All pluggable modules should be provided in 32 and 64 bit version and
both would need to be installed.

Though I'm currently unaware of any 64 bit programs using pam
on Solaris.

Who provided the module and why did they not provide a 32 bit module
also?

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HI,
Thanks for the information.
We are porting a custom pam module from sparc to amd64. All the
binaries are compiled in 64bit. For testing this we need 64bit passwd
program. If there is no Solaris 10 installation having 64bit passwd
then we can do with a 32 bit pam. But if there is any installation
having 64bit, then we have to have 64bit pam.
So we are looking for a confirmation whether SUN has a 64bit passwd
program on any Solaris pack.

Regards
Kiran

No, there is no 64 bit passwd program in any Solaris bundle.
Not for amd64, and not for SPARC.

Are the SPARC binaries compiled in 64 bit mode?

Why are you compiling the pam modules in 64 bit mode only?

Which 64 bit program you have which uses PAM?

There are to the best of my knowledge, *no* 64 bit programs shipped
with Solaris which use PAM.

Casper
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Hi,
Thank you very much for the information. I think we should provide both
32bit and 64bit pam. We suspect 64bit passwd would be available because
64bit pam libraries are already available on Solaris 10 64bit
installation.
We use a pam library to work with passwd. This library communicates
with a 64bit progam via socket. Just worried whether the 32bit pam
would work fine with a 64bit program over socket. This made us think of
64bit pam alone.

Regards
Kiran

We provide a full 32 and full 64 bit environment.  But because we
share the same installation between a 32 bit and a 64 bit OS install,
most utilities are only delivered in 32 bit versions.  Some are
delivered in 64 bit versions also, when that is needed.

Quote:>We use a pam library to work with passwd. This library communicates
>with a 64bit progam via socket. Just worried whether the 32bit pam
>would work fine with a 64bit program over socket. This made us think of
>64bit pam alone.

Ah, if you protocol is agnostic of the size of pointers, then you
should be fine.

Casper
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