On Sat, Oct 16, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > perhaps just my inexperience with PAM but i'm reading an online PAM > tutorial here: > > http://content.hccfl.edu/pollock/AUnix2/PAM-Help.htm > > and it mentions the use of the pam_stack.so module to support > recursive(?) processing. on my centos 5.5 system, "man pam_stack" > appears to describe it much the same way. > > but how does this differ from simply "include"ing another PAM config > file? Exactly that's the difference: pam_stack is recursive, include is including. Means there is no difference if you use include or put the modules into the config file, but there is a big difference if you use pam_stack (return value of all pam modules only count for pam_stack). > and, as you can see, all of those uses are commented out. so is > pam_stack.so even used anymore? thanks. pam_stack was RedHat/Fedora only, meanwhile replaced by include. 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
