Re: what does the "$ISA" mean in my pam configuration file , thanks!

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On Fri, Nov 23, Andrew Morgan wrote:

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> If you don't include any path, do you get the right behavior anyway?
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>   auth required pam_deny.so

Yes, this is the best solution, don't use a path at all. But some
distributions think (thought?) that not using the full path could
be a security risk. I prefer to only specify the module without path.

  Thorsten
 
> Cheers
> 
> Andrew
> 
> Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 23, liuruihong wrote:
> > 
> >> /etc/pam.d/other
> >>
> >> #%PAM-1.0
> >>
> >> auth     required       /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
> >>
> >> account  required       /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
> >>
> >> password required       /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
> >>
> >> session  required       /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >> what does the "$ISA" mean?
> > 
> > That's for 'biarch' systems, so that you can use a full
> > path to the modules for 32bit and 64bit.
> > 
> > For example, on such a system a 32bit application would
> > translate $ISA to ".", a 64bit application to "../../lib64/security"
> > 
> >   Thorsten
> > 
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