lastlog on Solaris with PAM (patch included)

[Nicolas Williams]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 12:16:08PM -0400, Mark Mentovai wrote:
> A separate but slightly related issue that I'm nailing at the same time (as
> well as an explanation for the change in do_exec_no_pty): It's possible for
> pam_setcred to print messages that should be considered part of the session,
> and that would need to be done after the stdio and pty plumbing.

No PAMs should ever read/write from/to stdio directly. They should
always use the conversation function. Also, the PAM_SILENT flag can be
used to ask that modules be as quiet as possible. It might be worthwhile
to use that flag in do_exec_no_pty().

> Mark


Nico
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