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Re: [linux-security] pty's and utmp - a disaster perpetrated long ago
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew G. Morgan)
Thu Sep 12 20:22:55 1996
From: "Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@parc.power.net>
To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu (Linux Security)
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 17:33:19 -0700 (PDT)
Aleph One wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Sep 1996, David Holland wrote:
> > This is because as far as I know there is no such interface.
>
> Guess linux defines one then. Might want to ask the folk working on
> PAM-Linux as this would fall under the session module of PAM. I'am sure
> they will have some suggestions.
>
Sun (who defined the PAM API) have not been very helpful with this.
Basically, for all the reasons that you have already discussed [in
summary, there is no standard] they decided to leave utmp maintenance
up to the applications.
We would all welcome a standard, it would be a simple thing to make
a session module that PAM aware applications could make use of.
If someone can come up with a coherent scheme, I'd be more than happy
to (help) implement it.
Regards
Andrew
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