[security-discuss] Re: [vconsole-discuss] pam_securetty module for OpenSolaris

2006-11-01 Thread Darren J Moffat
Joerg Barfurth wrote: > Darren J Moffat schrieb: >> Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > >>> What will they need to do? (For some reason, the community xdm >>> & gdm sources passes the X display as the PAM_TTY value, so we'd >>> either need to change them or add :0 to /etc/securetty. From >>> looking a

[security-discuss] Re: [vconsole-discuss] pam_securetty module for OpenSolaris

2006-11-01 Thread Joerg Barfurth
Darren J Moffat schrieb: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> What will they need to do? (For some reason, the community xdm >> & gdm sources passes the X display as the PAM_TTY value, so we'd >> either need to change them or add :0 to /etc/securetty. From >> looking at the dtlogin code, it appears to

[vconsole-discuss] pam_securetty module for OpenSolaris

2006-11-01 Thread Darren J Moffat
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Darren J Moffat wrote: >> This check is currently implemented in login(1) rather than in a > > ...and in xdm, gdm, and dtlogin too... > >> PAM module where it really belongs. > > Yes! Please! > >> Solution >> >> This case proposes the introduction of a pam_sec

[security-discuss] Re: [vconsole-discuss] pam_securetty module for OpenSolaris

2006-11-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Barfurth wrote: > Linux-PAM has officially (re)defined it that way - and of course that is > what most community developers develop against: > > "PAM_TTY: The terminal name: prefixed by /dev/ if it is a device file; > for graphical, X-based, applications the value for this item should be

[security-discuss] Re: [vconsole-discuss] pam_securetty module for OpenSolaris

2006-10-31 Thread Glenn Brunette
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Darren J Moffat wrote: >> This check is currently implemented in login(1) rather than in a > > ...and in xdm, gdm, and dtlogin too... > >> PAM module where it really belongs. > > Yes! Please! +1 >> Solution >> >> This case proposes the introduction of a pam

[vconsole-discuss] pam_securetty module for OpenSolaris

2006-10-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Darren J Moffat wrote: > This check is currently implemented in login(1) rather than in a ...and in xdm, gdm, and dtlogin too... > PAM module where it really belongs. Yes! Please! > Solution > > This case proposes the introduction of a pam_securetty(5) module > and the removal of the e

[vconsole-discuss] pam_securetty module for OpenSolaris

2006-10-31 Thread Darren J Moffat
Please review the attached proposal and help with the outstanding issues before I submit this as an ARC case. Note that the Virtual Console project could end up depending on this case but does not at this time. -- Darren J Moffat -- next part -- An embedded and charset-