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Port configure fails on ARM64

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On FreeBSD, if you are trying to build a port but it fails at the configure step with a message similar to this:

checking build system type... Invalid configuration `arm64-portbld-freebsd13.2': machine `arm64-portbld' not recognized
configure: error: /bin/sh ./build-aux/config.sub arm64-portbld-freebsd13.2 failed

Here’s a quick-fix that might work for you:

export CONFIGURE_TARGET=arm64-unknown-freebsd13.2
make install

This is similar to passing --host arm64-unknown-freebsd13.2 to the configure script instead of trying to guess it.

Fastd on FreeBSD

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Fastd is nice and small secure tunneling daemon. A bit like OpenVPN, if you wish, but geared toward small devices, simpler in its design and in some ways more generic.

There was a FreeBSD port, but it has been marked as broken. The fix, however, is very simple, if you accept to get rid of AES128 and instead use the SALSA stream cipher: 

cmake -DWITH_CIPHER_AES128_CTR=FALSE CMakeLists.txt
make
make install

Fingerprint and XScreenSaver

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Today I configured the fingerprint reader on my Thinkpad X201. I will not describe the process of configuring the fingerprint reader on FreeBSD as it has been documented many times on the Internet. Though if you want I may describe the process in a separate article, just tell me.

After the configuration, everybody from the display manager to su asked to authenticate with the reader. So it was fine. Except for xscreensaver which still confined itself password authentification. There were no configuration for xscreensaver in /etc/pam.d so I initially thought that it fell back on the “other” configuration. Therefore I added one for xscreensaver but it didn’t change anything.

However I installed xscreensaver as a package, and not from the ports. It turns out that the xscreensaver package does not enable the PAM option. You can check that via pkg info xscreensaver or use ldd /usr/local/bin/xscreensaver to check if xscreensaver is effectively linked with libpam.so.

So you can reinstall xscreensaver from the ports and configure it with the PAM option enabled. However I still wonder why they disabled this by default. I still have a problem with PAM which sometime does not detect the reader and cannot even authenticate with pam_unix. I don’t know what is the cause of this, but I’ll find out.