Mark,
Sorry for the delay in trying this out but things were a little busy and
I wanted to test it a little too. I've done a patch to the routine you
suggested and added this line before the "return NIL" and
"mail_parameters (NIL,SET_LOGOUTHOOK,(void *) checkpw_cleanup);"
statements in the checkpw subroutine in the file
src/osdep/unix/ckp_pam.c (2004g):
openlog ("imapd",LOG_PID,LOG_LOCAL4);
I had to hard set the program name for this test and obviously
LOG_LOCAL4 is my setting as opposed to the default LOG_MAIL. I've been
running this for the last few days on my production servers and so far
there have been no problems. So this seems to work okay but it still
annoys me that linux has this problem. From a Google search it seems
that this has been a problem for other developers (wu.ftpd for
instance). It seems to me that there should be an fsyslog function to
allow you to specify the facility on each syslog call in an environment
where other libraries are writing to their own syslog facilities. Oh well.
fyi,
David
Mark Crispin wrote:
It is news to me that PAM changes the application's syslog facility.
That seems, to put it mildly, to be rather unfriendly of it.
It doesn't happen to me on my Mac OS X system at home (which also uses
PAM). I took a look at my Linux test system and at one of our
production Linux servers, and see behavior that seems to confirm your
claim. I'm surprised that nobody has complained about this problem
before now.
I don't know what to tell you other than to do as you suggest and
reset the log facility after calling PAM. The best way would be to
add another openlog() call in routine checkpw() in ckp_pam.c (or
ckp_pmb.c for Solaris users)
Please let me know if this solves the problem and does not create any
unpleasant side effects. If it works out alright for you, I'll do the
same thing to imap-2006.
Thanks!
-- Mark --
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