On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:34:16PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 02:54:33PM -0400, Inger, Slav (S.B.) wrote: > > Thanks for the info. Wow, this is the first I've heard of > > /etc/pam.d/system-auth! Where can I go to get more info on this? > > Also, seeing that the PAM Admin Guide on kernel.org is out of date, > > are there any more up-to-date writeups/manuals out there? > > The /etc/pam.d/system-auth usage is a Red Hat innovation, and is by no > means common to all PAM-using (or even all Linux-PAM-using) systems. > For example, the upcoming release of Debian will use > /etc/pam.d/common-auth and related include files through a different > include mechanism than Red Hat's pam_stack. FYI: OpenPAM (used in FreeBSD) implements another include mechanism, see http://openpam.sourceforge.net/ and http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=171575 ALT Linux also uses same include method as in OpenPAM, patch for Linux-PAM is available at ftp://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/people/ldv/pam/pam-0.77-alt-pam_include.patch Looks like Debian's include mechanism implemented in 031_pam_include patch is much closer to my include extension rather than to pam_stack. Unfortunately, my efforts to get this standardized across platforms resulted to almost nothing - there are no working group so everybody answers "looks nice" with no effect. -- ldv
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