Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at Sun.COM> wrote:
> > For instance, in the X consolidation code, we are reading only
> > /etc/default/login, and it would make much more sense to have
> > PAM read this (or a replacement) itself. In xdm, we check for
> > the CONSOLE line to determine whether or not to let root login.
> > PAM should be able to do this, perhaps with a "restrict_root_to_console"
> > module or something like that.
>
> Most, but not all things in /etc/default/login can be moved into PAM
> modules, yes (and lastlog processing, and, if we add PAM items, even
> utmpx processing could move into PAM). E.g., TIMEOUT cannot be
> implemented in PAM without extending PAM (LinuxPAM, IIRC, implements
> timeouts in PAM).
>
> There are other things in /etc/default/ though. cscope finds 105 calls
> to defopen() in ON alone (excluding closed source, where there's a few
> more). Yes, a few over half of those are defopen(NULL) calls.
Please note that my programs (star, rmt, rscsi, cdrecord, readcd, cdda2wav,
mkisofs) also use /etc/default/ via my libdeflt.
As I am using this as a portabl way (libdeflt is included in source
in the related tools), this will stay as is.
J?rg
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