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Re: devfs + xinit Authentication error

To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: devfs + xinit Authentication error
From: Matthew Vanecek <linuxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 15:18:05 -0500
Cc: Paul Jakma <paul@xxxxxxxx>, Khimenko Victor <khim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx, devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Organization: University of North Texas
References: <AByfWlumr5@khim.sch57.msk.ru> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0003020945420.32301-100000@hibernia.spin.ie> <200004222007.e3MK76f15772@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca>
Sender: owner-devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Richard Gooch wrote:
> 
> 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....
> Permanent: rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Current:   rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I have util-linux-2.10h-6 installed, and it seems to be working ok.  I
had to change my securetty and console.perms to vc/*, anyhow. 

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