Paul Jakma writes:
> 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.
Can someone tell me what the status of this is? Has util-linux been
fixed (it's not obvious from the 2.10k HISTORY)? If not, what's the
patch that needs to be applied? And who will step forward and push it
to Andries?
Regards,
Richard....
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