On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 09:33:15PM +0100, Volker Stolz wrote:
> In local.freebsd-hackers, you wrote:
> > I'll accept that there might be bad interactions between PAM and
> > setusercontext() that I haven't considered. I'm not familiar enough with
> > PAM to know what those would be.
>
> For example you have to think about which flags to pass to
> setusercontext() and when to call it. Doing it whit LOGIN_SETALL
> *after* pam_setcred is definitely the wrong choice.
Yes, I noticed that xdm takes steps to avoid doing that.
> > In any case, hacking kdm is considerably less work, so I might as well do
> > that first.
>
> But beware of those convoluted #ifdefs. In gdm, things where much
> easier.
It is quite an ugly piece of code... hopefully less so after I'm done with
it, however :-)
Scott
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