On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 01:19:44PM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> 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
It would be nice to merge all back to util-linux and share the code
rather than maintain forks.
> from util-linux > ten years ago AFAICT. It also includes features
> from shadow-utils, like reading settings from /etc/login.defs.
Does make anything other than MAIL_DIR sense for login(1)?
(IMHO the MAIL_DIR could be also defined by pam_env.)
Karel
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