[gentoo-dev] PAM related: pam_console ?

["Diego \"Flameeyes\" Pettenò" <flameeyes@users.berlios.de>]

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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?
-- 
Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
http://wwwstud.dsi.unive.it/~dpetteno/

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