On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > > In the patch below I implemented the 'rootdir=directory' option for the > > pam_unix module, by which one can define an alternate root directory when > > looking up the files. So one can store alternate passwd, etc. files with > > the user data on a cluster (shared) filesystem, without the need of > > additional services running. > > But you haven't modified any of the code that uses getpwnam() or getspnam() > to query the password database, so AFAICS this patch is useless since it > only affects password updates. It affects the realm of PAM - getpwnam/getspnam is covered by nss and that is handled by a different package/patch. Therefore I haven't posted it to this list. Best regards, Jozsef - E-mail : kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key : http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address : KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary _______________________________________________ Pam-list mailing list Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
