>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Matt> The pam_mail module attempts to perform stat() of the mail
Matt> location. If the mail location is NFS mounted and that
Matt> server is unavailable, logins as any user (root included)
Matt> will hang indefinitely (hampering attempts to umount the NFS
Matt> mount etc).
Matt> A solution would probably be alarm(10); before the stat()
Matt> call in pam_mail.c
I'm a bit concerned by having a library muck with signal handling
state, but I agree this is probably the best that can be done. I'd be
happy to look at a patch for this; I doubt I'll get to it myself.
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