[Openswan Users] pam authentication being used for xauth even when USE_XAUTHPAM?=false

[Mohit Mehta]

>Use openswan 2.4 for l2tp. Anything else use openswan 2.6.
>The l2tp bug (bug #1004) has been partially solved in the last couple
>of days, so hopefully soon there will be really no reason for
>openswan 2.4.x anymore.

Thanks for the reply. I would want to use 2.6.x but I guess we'll have wait till bug #1004 is fixed. Out of curiosity ;-), is there an expected time frame for when that would happen?

----- Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Mohit Mehta wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the quick response. Turned out that in the source from debian - in debian/rules USE_XAUTHPAM was being set to true. I changed that to false and it works as expected now.
> 
> Good.
> 
> > As a side note, I was wondering if I could find the differences (feature-wise or known bugs) between 2.4.x and 2.6.x versions of Openswan; so as to make the decision about which is better in production environments?
> 
> Use openswan 2.4 for l2tp. Anything else use openswan 2.6. 
> The l2tp bug (bug #1004) has been partially solved in the last couple
> of days, so hopefully soon there will be really no reason for
> openswan 2.4.x anymore.
> 
> Paul