[Serusers] SER version question

[Jiri Kuthan]

At 10:41 PM 8/25/2003, Nell Bolen wrote:
>Hello Serusers,
>
>A few days ago, installed SER and some addons on a linux 686 
>using rpms for 386. Seems to work okay. Also serweb pages seem 
>to be working.
>
>However, today, in someone's list post, there was a link to a "tarball" 
>directory. After looking through there, I see that the ser rpm brings 
>fewer modules along, and of course also, is not as up to date as the 
>tarball tar.gz-.
>
>Question 1: If I want to install the tar.gz, do I delete the current rpm 
>version first or just write over? If delete first, clues for a method to 
>do that would be appreciated. Know where most of the rpm ser files 
>are, but not for sure. Just stop the current ser and then delete its 
>files and other references to it elsewhere?
>
>Question 2: While looking over tarball files, I saw more than once 
>references to a second auth module that I cannot find anywhere in 
>tarball -- has to do with databasing, something like auth_db.so or 
>something like that. Is that module no longer needed, and if it is 
>needed, what does it support/enable and where to find it?

the auth_db is part of the tarball. It implements database-related
functionality of authentication, i.e., password storage and verification.
It was not needed in 8.10, it is need for 8.11.

-jiri