New PAM code landing (at last)

Dag-Erling Smorgrav des at ofug.org
Tue May 13 20:31:04 EST 2003


"James Williamson" <james at nameonthe.net> writes:
> I've scanned the code and the PAM stuff is actually broken despite
> the privileges.  The credentials stage is actually called after the
> session stage which runs contra to what the linux pam docs specify
> (i.e. it should be done before).

The Linux PAM docs are wrong.  Please do not consider anything Andrew
Morgan has written as authoritative.  If you need a working open-
source PAM library, see <URL:http://openpam.sourceforge.net/>.

DES
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