pam_appl.h and pam_misc.h missing, in rshd.c source code

I don't have CentOS at the moment, but it seems like this is a common problem. See here for information, it's suggested you install pam-devel so you don't have to build from source via:

yum install pam-devel

Seems everytime I find a site where the problem is the same as yours the fix is to install this. I'm downloading CentOS 5.5 to give it a try now, but did you just try running that command?

If you did install that and it's still not finding the header files I'd give this a try:

cd /sudo find . -name "pam_appl.h"sudo find . -name "pam_misc.h"

It's possible that they were installed and didn't go into your standard include path, or didn't go into the security/ directory, in which case you'll need to either move them or change the way the header is included in your code.

Note for the sudo commands you'll have to enter your password.

if someone is looking for debian/ubuntu, try this sudo apt-get install libpam0g-dev

You need the rpm for pam-devel, available for CentOS here. Alternatively, you can download pam from here and install it locally.

Edit:To compile it, this works fine on my system:

wget http://linux-pam.org/library/Linux-PAM-1.1.6.tar.bz2tar xvjf Linux-PAM-1.1.6.tar.bz2cd Linux-PAM-1.1.6/./configure --prefix=$HOME/localmake && make install

If it does not, please report the compiler errors.