On Wed, 19.12.07 17:42, Patrice Dumas (pertusus@xxxxxxx) wrote: > Nobody thinks that. But PAM allows to run some login wide stuff, with > modularity and under administrator control, and hook in any login > program. This may not be the perfect place to start PA, but it is still > better than starting it only in gdm. Maybe the X session script is > better, but the issue with session script (in > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common) is that it is only for X, and it is not > modular. The interest of pam is that the administrator may decide which > login path uses it. You are aware that there still is /etc/profile and similar scripts? Those are usually not interpreted when doing a login on X11 (at least AFAIK). So, for shell-only logins it is not that difficult to hook additional stuff in. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
