On Sat, Aug 15, Matthew W. S. Bell wrote: > Hi, > This patch logs a message if getspnam() fails which, notably, happens if > the PAM using process does not have permissions to read /etc/shadow. As > such, this message serves debugging and security notification purposes. You are under the assumption that there has to be a shadow entry if this function is called. But this is not that case. For example, if you are using NIS, it is most likely that there is no entry. Which would mean, that the log file would get flooded with this message. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Project Manager/Release Manager SLES SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) _______________________________________________ Pam-list mailing list Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
