pam session in linux port

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at pcug.org.au
Fri Jun 22 21:13:51 EST 2001


Christian Kraemer wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does anybody know why openssh (openssh-2.9p1) on a linux system does not call
> pam_open_session if no pty is used? In this way the session modules (in
> /etc/pam.d) are not activated.
> 
> This is especially annoying if you
> use pam_limits.so to set rlimits. Every user could
> circumvent them easily.
> 
> I do not know if this issue has been discussed before and if this behavior is
> not alright .....
> 
> cu Christian

I posted a patch to correct this behaviour, but it seems to have been
ignored (I've certainly not heard back about it).

Andrew Bartlett

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