[OpenAFS-devel] More on the PAM modules, pthreads, and other joys

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> If, if it belongs in kauth, it should be in ka_Init, except that
>> probably secretly there are cases you don't want to call it either. It
>> doesn't belong in ka_UserAuthenticateGeneral.
>
> The PAM module (except for the function to do password changing) doesn't
> call ka_Init either.  I don't know if that's because there's some reason
> not to or just because it wasn't needed.

Given what it does there's a good chance you don't want to.