Regarding PAM_TTY_KLUDGE and Solaris 8...

[Ed Phillips]

Okay, this appears to be a problem with pam_unix.so - the code in
pam_sm_open_session is written with the assumption that the tty name is of
the form "/dev/" + something else on the end.  I'm not sure why the
existing kludge works without getting a SEGV - but it's probably blind
luck (although I'd think it would fail for someone at some point).  If it
doesn't break anything on other systems, the kludge should probably be
changed to pass "/dev/ssh" or something, just to be safe.

The core dump happens as it's trying to strip "/dev/" off of the tty name
in order to write the tty name (abbreviated) into the lastlog.

	Ed

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