[PATCH] a library and, uh, a PAM module

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Wed Feb 28 02:45:30 PST 2007


On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 12:38:19AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> 
> Here are some patches to add one library and one PAM module so other
> programs (apart from gdm) can easily interact with ConsoleKit. It's
> mainly going to be used, I think, by login(1) and xinit(1). I'm not
> super happy about doing a PAM module but the Fedora util-linux package
> maintainer seems to be insist on this instead of just patching login(1).
> The PAM module isn't built by default. Both pieces of code are licensed
> under the MIT license as god knows what might want to use them. Sounds
> good to you?

Sounds good. Just one thing, why environment variables and not pam
items, for the tty and display? And it would certainly make sense to
have those 2 items part of standard pam.

--
Pat


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