Apache: Pre-compiled mod_auth_pam for SLES 11

This was ridiculous. Since apache-devel isn't available in SLES (and I do understand why, but give me the option at least!), I had to sync up one of my SLES machines to an OpenSuSE repository and get all of my necessary packages required to compile mod_auth_pam. I was required to downgrade quite a few packages, but whatever works, eh?

For those of you running SLES and are trying to get mod_auth_pam to work, you can grab a precompiled copy of mod_auth_pam.tgz.

This works on the standard Apache2 install that comes with SLES 11. I presume it also works on OpenSuSE 11 as well. Just download the tgz, extract the contents, and run ./install. Then you can load up Novell's step-by-step tutorial on how to get this to work. Take note at the instructions to manually change a few files because that still needs to be done.

For my future reference, here are the Apache directives I ended up using:

1AuthPAM_Enabled On
2AuthPAM_FallThrough Off
3AuthBasicAuthoritative Off
4AuthGROUP_Enabled Off
5AuthUserFile /dev/null
6AuthType Basic
7AuthName ADDomain
8require valid-user

While this works, it isn't seamless like way mod_auth_ntlm_winbind, but it works over SSL, unlike mod_auth_ntlm_winbind.