Hello, On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:38:55AM -0500, David Mitton wrote: > > This was discussed in some other forum (which I lost my breadcrumbs to). > It's moot to me, as I currently don't plan on changing that value. > But login should not assume that getpwnam(PAM_USER) will work until > committed with a setcred. OK. I see your point and getpwnam() should be delayed as much as possible. However, login is required to setuid(<UID>) / setgid(<GID>) before setcred, and <UID> or <GID> can only be found using getpwnam(PAM_USER). Best Regards, -- Nekral _______________________________________________ Pam-list mailing list Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
