Karel Zak wrote: > 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. Sure. >> 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)? That one isn't even used by our login. AFAICT the following settings are honored: DEFAULT_HOME ENV_PATH ENV_ROOTPATH FAIL_DELAY HUSHLOGIN_FILE LOGIN_TIMEOUT LOG_UNKFAIL_ENAB MOTD_FILE TTYGROUP TTYPERM TTYTYPE_FILE I agree that most of them are either superfluous or could be handled by pam modules. Probably interesting are LOGIN_TIMEOUT and LOG_UNKFAIL_ENAB. The former is hard-coded in util-linux and the latter feature is missing. It replaces unknown user names with "UNKNOWN" in the logs. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
