Re: pam_getenv

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Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> XSSO (http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/008329799/pam_getenv.htm#tagcjh_07_08)
> says, that the application has to free the return variable. Means
> Solaris is right and Linux-PAM wrong according to XSSO.
> 
> But: openpam as used on *BSD and MacOS claims to be conform to XSSO,
> but they also don't use a copy of the value.
> Means currently Solaris is incompatible to openpam and Linux-PAM in
> this regard.

Just to be clear, according to the credits file on my Mac
(Acknowledgements.rtf), MAC uses a derivative of Linux PAM.

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Cheers

Andrew
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