Re: PAM support? (Was: [sysvinit] Re: ?New sysvinit version 2.89dsf?)

[Dr. Werner Fink]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 01:10:55PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Werner Fink]
> >> IMHO we should not use PAM in sulogin without any fallback
> >> otherwise we'd run into trouble in case of having en error in the
> >> PAM configuration.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> > Attached I've a patch which uses PAM to update the lastlog file in
> > case of a dead PAM user session.  Should we apply this one?
> 
> Right now, I believe we should wrap up what we got and make a new
> release, and look at the PAM stuff for the next release.

OK, just do it.  The last change was a bug fix from
Fedora about SELinux in sulogin.  The possible patch
for PAM lastlog support is now part in the contrib
directory.

       Werner

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