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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