[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#68621: PAM support for sulogin (was: Re: sysvinit: Add PAM support)

[Vladimir Velychko]

>[Topi Miettinen]
>> This patch (adapted from login) adds PAM support to init. At least
>> Trusted Solaris's init is probably doing similar things, according
>> to manual page.
>
>Can you or anyone else explain why this is useful, for those of us not
>understanding this intuitively?
>
>The patch look OK, but I do not understand what problem it is trying
>to solve.
I don't know about init, but without PAM support no one can do /sbin/sulogin
(going to single user mode) in case (for example) pam_unix2.so enabled
(package libpam-unix2) and root password encrypted with blowfish hash.
BTW I already have this problem. :-(
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