On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:33:13PM +0200, Max Liccardo wrote: > just a dubt: > Should a pam module authenticate PAM_RUSER or PAM_USER?? a lot of > applications don't set PAM_RUSER, on the other side I think that at > least should be PAM_RUSER=PAM_USER.... Always PAM_USER. PAM_RUSER is used for .rhost-style authentication (and perhaps a few other network-only applications). If you're doing this for auth, you might be even better off using pam_get_user(). Nalin