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Re: devfs + xinit Authentication error

To: Khimenko Victor <khim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: devfs + xinit Authentication error
From: Paul Jakma <paul@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 09:47:27 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx, rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, linuxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <AByfWlumr5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:

  In <Pine.LNX.4.21.0003020000070.24029-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Paul Jakma 
(paul@xxxxxxxx) 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,
-- 
Paul Jakma      paul@xxxxxxxx
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