Joe, Heiko, thanks a lot for your quick reply. But even if the application itself is responsible for the service name, can I be sure that the following is always true?: PAM_SERVICE = name of the file in the /etc/pam.d directory Boris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heiko Hund" <heiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 8.48 PM Subject: Re: Pam configuration files > Hey Boris, > > > Now it is even more interesting. I wrote a sample module and I printed out > > the PAM_SERVICE item for FTP connection and it was "ftp" and not "ftpd" > > So what is it a typo in the Administration Guide? > > not at all. Every PAM enabled application chooses its own service name. > Therefore it could be anything. It is only a convention to choose the > name of the app. Obviously your ftpd chose `ftp' as a service name. That > also is why the file in /etc/pam.d is named `ftp' and not `ftpd'. If you > dislike that, you may recompile the ftpd with a service name you like. > > Greetings > Heiko > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > of course they say every atom of our body was once part of a star > maybe I'm not leaving, maybe I'm going home > ------------------------------------------------------ [gattaca] -- > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list _______________________________________________ Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
