Re: Link to PAM pages broken

On 29 October 2011 02:04, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote:
> On 28 October 2011 23:29, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> No response from kernel.org and the link still doesn't work, so we
>>>> still have 2 broken links.
>>
>> Is it unreasonable to assume that kernel.org will come back before any
>> doc change would have wide distribution?  AFAIK they're just cleaning up
>> from an intrusion, they have not shut down permanently.
>
> I had considered that, but then I haven't seen any progress.  The site
> has been back up for a while, but there doesn't seem to have been much
> advancement in restoring the documentation in question.  I also
> haven't had any feedback from kernel.org with regards to any plan to
> restore these docs.  I guess this can be revisited in the new year to
> see if the situation has changed.
>
> But as for the sun.com links, I don't see those coming back at all.
> Those have either been relocated to a secret uncrawlable location, or
> it's been deleted.  They did exist at least until June this year
> (http://web.archive.org/web/20110604010813/http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/pam/)
> but have since been purged for some unknown reason.

Having just sent that message, I suddenly stumbled upon this which
might be worth linking to for Solaris:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19082-01/819-3321/pam-1/index.html

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