SSHD with PAM question

Bob Bramwell bob at jasomi.com
Tue Nov 2 06:23:15 EST 2004


Can anyone provide some insight into why the auth-pam module uses a fork in 
pthread_create (auth-pam.c)?  This completely breaks the ability of one PAM 
function to pass data to others via the pam_set_data/pam_get_data functions.

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