Re: PAM support? (Was: [sysvinit] Re: ?New sysvinit version 2.89dsf?)

[Dr. Werner Fink]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 08:24:08PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Dr. Werner Fink]
> > OK, tested it out and had done some changes.  The file
> > /etc/pam.d/init is required otherwise the logon is not possible.
> 
> Why not change the pam_start() call to use "login" instead of "init",
> to avoid the need for a new pam configuration file?
> 
> Btw, why is the pam stuff in init.c, and not in sulogin.c?

IMHO we should not use PAM in sulogin without any fallback
otherwise we'd run into trouble in case of having en error
in the PAM configuration.

      Werner

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