JNA Library

[avpinchuk]

Hi all!

Currently, we use JNA library shaded within libpam4j.jar. A quick search of the code showed that the JNA is only used in libpam4j itself.

Maybe it would be better to separate libpam4j and JNA into separate artifacts?

[dmatej]

What are consequences, could it have something to do with OSGI+JPMS?
You can try that; do we have some tests covering that?

[avpinchuk]

I am working on refactoring services and considering replacing WinSW with Apache Procrun. To select the correct exe file, we need to use the Windows call with JNA.

In my opinion, it's wrong to use inlined dependencies from one module in another. It's better to move these dependencies into a separate module.

This also applies to libpam4j – PAM authentication doesn't work in general, and after testing fixes, it doesn't work on macOS. I'm working on this too.