On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:48:34PM +0100, Robert van der Meulen wrote: > Quoting Dale Scheetz (dwarf@polaris.net): > > When I try to log into some sites with Mozilla, I get this pop up dialog > > box telling me to "find my personal security manager". > <snip> > > Does anyone know just what personal security manager I need to make this > > work? > it needs 'psm'. > The instructions on how to get (compile) it, are in > /usr/share/doc/mozilla/psm-helper, if i recall correctly. > > Why it's not included in the mozilla package, or packaged seperately - i > don't know. > Beware: make sure you've got libnspr-dev and mozilla-dev installed when > trying to compile the thing. actually the instructions in /usr/share/doc/mozilla are to download a precompiled binary from iplanet, this is quite non-free in all senses of the word. you just compile a wrapper library to make it not die when it can't write to /usr/lib/mozilla. the Free software version of the PSM stuff looks like its being better integrated into the mozilla tree so hopefully this won't be needed much longer. (though debian packaging may have to deal with silly US laws in some way) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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