Re: [gentoo-dev] PAM related: pam_console ?

[Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 15:17 +0200, Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò wrote:
> Seems like pam_console modules is broken. I'm not able to make it compile both 
> as a standalone ebuild i'm trying to write and as the complete pam with 
> +pam_console flag.
> 
> Anyway I was wondering what pam_console is used for, at the end. It's a way to 
> set up permissions when someone logins at a console. I would never use 
> something like that on a remote server, as anyone which could have a local 
> login can do anything· It also doesn't make sense on a recent user system 
> configured properly, as devfs/udev would take care of permissions, and users 
> needs only to set the group correctly (simpler than using pam_console 
> anyway).
> 
> Seems to me like a workaround for old old (too old!) systems, which is no more 
> needed at least for us.
> 
> I know this is there also for compatibility, but this makes sys-libs/pam 
> ebuild very bloated as for now, and still I don't know a reason to have it 
> there.
> 
> Some comments about it?

/care

We anyhow move to not using it by default in 0.78 - axe it while we
still can.


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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa


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