linux fontconfig (was: Re: LDAP and Linux compatibility)

[Michael Collette]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:45:40 +0100, Alexander Leidinger
<Alexander at leidinger.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 02:18:38 -0800
> Michael Collette <metrol.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I should have posted a follow up, but I didn't think it was relevant
> > to security.  Turned out all that was needed was to add a couple of
> > missing font paths to the font.conf file in the
> > /compat/linux/etc/fonts directory.  I now have both Acrobat Reader 7.0
> > and RealPlayer up and running.
> 
> Are we talking about non-standard font paths?

Sure was.  I had a TrueType and WinFonts directory defined in my
xorg.conf file, but nowhere else.
 
> > I still have some pretty serious concerns with how I needed to fix the
> > uid lookup problem.
> 
> The right solution is to get appropriate linux ports (pam_ldap, ...).

Is there any reason why the system call couldn't be masked instead? 
I've only read enough thus far to be a danger, but it seems like that
would be a more elegant way of handling authentication issues for
whatever OS is being emulated.

Later on,
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