Re: PAM-only login(1)

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Karel Zak wrote:
>   I'd like to clean up login(1) code for v2.21. The current code is
>   mess with many #ifdef and support for some unused (and badly tested) 
>   features (e.g. non-PAM support for /etc/securetty and /etc/usertty).
> 
>   What about to finally create nice and readable PAM-only login(1) for
>   Linux?

+1

On openSUSE we already use a pam-only login program¹. It was forked
from util-linux > ten years ago AFAICT. It also includes features
from shadow-utils, like reading settings from /etc/login.defs.

cu
Ludwig

[1] https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=login&project=Base%3ASystem

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