pam_appl.h and pam_misc.h missing, in rshd.c source code

Question

I am working on a centOS 5.5 OS.

It shows error that /security/pam_appl.h and /security/misc.h file is missing.

Actually my rshd.c does not load

Answer 1

For people who find this through the search engines, the following worked for me on CentOS 7:

yum install pam-devel

Answer 2

if someone is looking for debian/ubuntu, try this sudo apt-get install libpam0g-dev

Answer 3

You need the rpm for pam-devel, available for CentOS here. Alternatively, you can download pam from here and install it locally.

Edit: To compile it, this works fine on my system:

wget http://linux-pam.org/library/Linux-PAM-1.1.6.tar.bz2
tar xvjf Linux-PAM-1.1.6.tar.bz2
cd Linux-PAM-1.1.6/
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
make && make install

If it does not, please report the compiler errors.

Answer 4

I don't have CentOS at the moment, but it seems like this is a common problem. See here for information, it's suggested you install pam-devel so you don't have to build from source via:

yum install pam-devel

Seems everytime I find a site where the problem is the same as yours the fix is to install this. I'm downloading CentOS 5.5 to give it a try now, but did you just try running that command?

If you did install that and it's still not finding the header files I'd give this a try:

cd /
sudo find . -name "pam_appl.h"
sudo find . -name "pam_misc.h"

It's possible that they were installed and didn't go into your standard include path, or didn't go into the security/ directory, in which case you'll need to either move them or change the way the header is included in your code.

Note for the sudo commands you'll have to enter your password.