On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 15:55 -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > is anyone already working on an factotum port to p9p or native Linux ? > > > > I've just wrote a patch to Linux kernel which allows changing > > another process' privileges (uid, etc). The /dev/caphash and > > /dev/capuse devices (IMHO) can be simulated from userspace. > > > > factotum has been running for years on linux, though it doesn't > bother interacting with the kernel or pam.
Any particular (security?) reason for not having a PAM-aware factotum or is it just lack of interest? Thanks, Roman.
