From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bay0-omc1-s7.bay0.hotmail.com ([65.54.246.79]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I46WP-0007S2-00 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:47:46 -0400 Received: from hotmail.com ([65.55.152.26]) by bay0-omc1-s7.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2668); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:47:15 -0700 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:47:15 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from 71.111.96.206 by BAY141-DAV16.phx.gbl with DAV; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:47:14 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [71.111.96.206] X-Originating-Email: [z_kline@hotmail.com] X-Sender: z_kline@hotmail.com From: "Zachary Kline" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <001f01c7b9f8$84404160$ab00a8c0@tenstac> Subject: Re: dropline-gnome accessibility Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:47:09 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Jun 2007 02:47:15.0181 (UTC) FILETIME=[CD1059D0:01C7B9F7] X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:47:46 -0000 Hiya, I read somewhere today actually that VMWare server didn't actually require PAM, that it was a common misconception? I confess I can't remember the article I read that in, but I'll try to find it and get back to you. Thanks, Zack. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Sutherland" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 7:52 PM Subject: Re: dropline-gnome accessibility >I went through a pam install from source on slackware recently > because the new free vmware server will not work without it. > It was annoying to get working initially because the pam config > provided by vmware was not compatible with the pam built > from source. Apparently most distros have pam but slack does > not. Not sure how much it complicates thing altogether but for > getting vmware working, once it was configured properly it > was not a problem at all for me. PAM is an authentication > system, so yes it does complicate authentication. Vmware > uses it for authenticating access to those vmware processes > over that funky local network it creates. More info on pam > here > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ > > I don't know much about gnome because I've been very > interested in it. > > -- Doug > > > Zach wrote: > I've heard some technical complaints about Dropline. One of those > seems to be that it installs PAM, which isn't really something I'm > familiar with. From what I gather, it complicates traditional ways of > doing things considerably. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >