[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#524608: login: PAM_TTY without the /dev/ prefix

[Nicolas François]

tags 524608 upstream
tags 524608 fixed-upstream
tags 524608 pending
thanks

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 02:33:34PM +0200, ubanus at users.sf.net wrote:
>
> Contrary to what the PAM manual says, login sets PAM_TTY to "tty1"
> rather than to "/dev/tty1":
>
> $ man pam_set_item | grep -A3 PAM_TTY$ | sed -e 's/^ *//'
> 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
> the $DISPLAY variable.

Thanks for reporting it.

This was recently fixed upstream.

Best Regards,
-- 
Nekral