Julien Cristau wrote:
> It seems that xdm doesn't call openlog(), so the identifier defaults to
> null when pam calls syslog().
> Alan, do you know why the call to openlog() is conditional on
> __OpenBSD__? I think we should add it on linux too (something like the
> attached patch).
That's the way we inherited it from XFree86 - from looking at their CVS,
this was a set of changes from the OpenBSD team that XFree86 applied for
OpenBSD only even though they were more widely applicable:
271. xdm updates from the OpenBSD team, including:
- support for Kerberos IV authentication [enabled only in OpenBSD.cf,
but could be enabled for other systems by setting HasdKrbIV]
- use the arc4random(4) random number generator on OpenBSD
- add a new resource "allowRootLogin", which can be used to disable
root logins through xdm
- log failed logins to syslogd [OpenBSD only, but could be enabled on
other systems]
- verify that the shell is valid using /etc/shells [OpenBSD only]
- verify that the account hasn't expired [OpenBSD only, but could be
enabled on other system that use the same passwd aging structure]
(#3948, 3980, OpenBSD team, Matthieu Herrb).
I'd have no objections to using openlog() on other OS'es too, though I'd
prefer an autoconf test for the openlog() function over just adding __linux__
(or just making it non-conditional for all OS'es if everyone has openlog()).
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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