From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j36LbAMB003506 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 21:37:10 GMT Received: from ctb-mesg2.saix.net ([196.25.240.74]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJICr-0000FA-RO for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 21:37:02 +0000 Received: from gateway.lan (wblv-146-225-163.telkomadsl.co.za [165.146.225.163]) by ctb-mesg2.saix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52E403BB8 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 23:37:08 +0200 (SAST) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gateway.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BA613A26DB for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 23:42:58 +0200 (SAST) Received: from gateway.lan ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gateway.lan [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00451-11 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 23:42:54 +0200 (SAST) Received: from nosferatu.lan (nosferatu.lan [192.168.0.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher IDEA-CBC-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gateway.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id 717663A26DA for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 23:42:54 +0200 (SAST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] PAM related: pam_console ? From: Martin Schlemmer To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200503311517.10772@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> References: <200503311517.10772@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-3o5Ka8IpglKTe7vhjJa3" Organization: Gentoo Foundation Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 23:40:50 +0200 Message-Id: <1112823650.9136.94.camel@nosferatu.lan> Precedence: bulk List-Post: , , List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at nosferatu.za.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4b02daff-ab42-464b-9d77-7857d9513d25 X-Archives-Hash: 23343b4006fc6dd467e885bf40751ba5 --=-3o5Ka8IpglKTe7vhjJa3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 15:17 +0200, Diego "Flameeyes" Petten=C3=B2 wrote: > Seems like pam_console modules is broken. I'm not able to make it compile= both=20 > as a standalone ebuild i'm trying to write and as the complete pam with=20 > +pam_console flag. >=20 > Anyway I was wondering what pam_console is used for, at the end. It's a w= ay to=20 > set up permissions when someone logins at a console. I would never use=20 > something like that on a remote server, as anyone which could have a loca= l=20 > login can do anything=C2=B7 It also doesn't make sense on a recent user s= ystem=20 > configured properly, as devfs/udev would take care of permissions, and us= ers=20 > needs only to set the group correctly (simpler than using pam_console=20 > anyway). >=20 > Seems to me like a workaround for old old (too old!) systems, which is no= more=20 > needed at least for us. >=20 > I know this is there also for compatibility, but this makes sys-libs/pam=20 > ebuild very bloated as for now, and still I don't know a reason to have i= t=20 > there. >=20 > Some comments about it? /care We anyhow move to not using it by default in 0.78 - axe it while we still can. --=20 Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa --=-3o5Ka8IpglKTe7vhjJa3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCVFdiqburzKaJYLYRAvHEAJ4lgrC97nWXfPejhqrsVcC4zgWCvACfXcYC 7GPHKv2tdlQj6RlPVf49vSA= =V+OL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-3o5Ka8IpglKTe7vhjJa3-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list