Re: Use of "[success=ok ...]" form

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On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 03:51:01PM -0500, Patterson, Ross wrote:
> Andrew Morgan <morgan@transmeta.com> writes:
> > Please file a bug report:
> 
> Done.

[...]

> This case does not work as expected - the user cannot log in:
> 
> # cat /etc/pam.d/login
> #%PAM-1.0
> auth      required      /lib/security/pam_dump_info.so before
> #auth    optional      /lib/security/pam_rc.so 3 0
> auth   [success=ok new_authtok_reqd=ok default=ignore] \
>                        /lib/security/pam_rc.so 3 0
> auth     requisite     /lib/security/pam_unix.so       nullok #set_secrpc
> auth      required      /lib/security/pam_dump_info.so after

Auth modules are not supposed to return new_authtok_reqd.

And yes, the stack should ignore pam_rc:auth's return of PAM_SEVICE_ERR
given the above config.

[...]

> > > > What gives?  Anybody understand this stuff?
> > 
> > Well, I thought I did.
> 
> I thought I did too :-)

Clearly there must be a bug in libpam.


> Ross Patterson
> Computer Associates


Cheers,

Nico
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