Re: Link to PAM pages broken

From: Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>
To: pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Link to PAM pages broken
Date: 2011-10-20 10:57:41
Message-ID: CAA-aLv4oy-Xz+VFpyVhiNTGetpBNwEQhXmJeMG5faqDTJV051w@mail.gmail.com
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On 10 October 2011 19:15, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> wrote:
> On 10 October 2011 17:52, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I notice that the links to both the Linux PAM page and Solaris PAM
>> page are broken in our documentation.  The bottom of the
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/auth-methods.html page
>> points to http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ and
>> http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/pam/.  The former is broken, the
>> latter redirects to some generic Oracle page.
>>
>> I can't find a suitable candidates for substitution.  I found
>> http://linux.die.net/man/8/pam.d and
>> http://dsc.sun.com/solaris/articles/user_auth_solaris3.html but
>> nothing to directly replace them.  Any ideas?
>
> Found a link to a site which contains identical Linux PAM information:
> http://kernel.osuosl.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/sag-module-reference.html
>
> But even so, I have sent an email to kernel.org notifying them of the
> missing pages.

No response from kernel.org and the link still doesn't work, so we
still have 2 broken links.

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