[Pkg-shadow-devel] pam_env should be a session module
Christian Perrier
bubulle at debian.org
Sat Oct 1 05:36:37 UTC 2005
Quoting Nicolas François (nicolas.francois at centraliens.net):
> Hello,
>
> See the attached discussion on #debian-devel.
>
> Currently, when root uses su, pam_env is not used (because pam_env is used
> as an auth module, and pam_rootok is defined as sufficient earlier)
>
> I think we should use pam_env as a session module (as upstream do).
>
> Another solution would be to move the pam_env line before sufficient
> pam_rootok.
According to assufield's nice comments in the discussion, that seems
to be a bad idea.
Andrew makes very rude comments but is often right because he has some
good expertise (I expect him to grow up a little some day in a far
future...:-)))
So, let's move pam_env to a session module.
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