On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:
In <Pine.LNX.4.21.0003020000070.24029-100000@hibernia.spin.ie> Paul Jakma (paul@clubi.ie) wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
Exactly. And it's NOT what you want.
> What's really needed is to fix the PAM securetty module. At the moment it
> won't parse full paths like /dev/vc/6 - which imo means pam securetty is
> broken.
Oh, yeah. Of course PAM is broken. We need to embed telepathy in PAM
IMMEDEATELY !
:)
Or you can fix PAM so it will use full name after THAT
-- cut --
if ((tty = rindex(ttyn, '/')))
++tty;
else
tty = ttyn;
-- cut --
snippet from login.c ? PAM module was NEVER supplied with full device name
to begin with. Add tiny patch to your login.c (from unix-utils) and stop
blaming the innocent PAM.
sorry, i just presumed the brokenness was in PAM. thanks for pointing
the correct source of the problem. You should that submit that patch
to the utils-linux maintainer.
regards,
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