Hi Volker, On 21/08/2020 16:19, Volker Theile wrote: > Hi all, > > i've opened the tracker issue https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=80004 > which requests Linux PAM (pluggable authentication modules) support in > PHP8. IMO PAM is an essential feature that is required by professional > applications. Sadly the PECL extension https://pecl.php.net/package/PAM > is not maintained anymore and can't be used in PHP7 without patching it. > I fear with PHP8 this will not be possible anymore. > > Because of that i want to bring up this topic and start a discussion if > it is possible to integrate PAM support in the origin Git source tree, > so package maintainer (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu, ...) can activate it simply > via build flag and ship this extension through their packages. By > integrating it into the origin source tree there is no need for a PECL > extension anymore, the benefit of this will be that the code is always > up-to-date and can be build out of the origin source.
What you'd need would be someone to step up and start maintaining it. If it doesn't currently work that's one more reason not to bundle in core. Cheers -- Matteo Beccati Development & Consulting - http://www.beccati.com/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
