On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 06:04:05PM -0500, Matthew Rench wrote: > I would like an ssh login to produce the same check for new mail that > /usr/bin/login does. (That is, "You have new mail." or similar printed out > after login, unless ~/.hushlogin exists.) On my linux box, this is achieved > using the pam_mail module. If I run "locate pam_mail" on my FreeBSD 4.10 box, I > get the following: > > % locate pam_mail > /usr/src/contrib/libpam/modules/pam_mail > /usr/src/contrib/libpam/modules/pam_mail/README > > Have I forgotten to install part of the source tree that I don't have any > source for this module? Is there an easier way to get this module installed > (e.g. one of the ports)? Or should I be going about this an altogether > different way?
4.x uses the Linux libpam sources, but in 5.x that's been replaced by OpenPAM -- in theory you can read all about OpenPAM at http://www.openpam.org/, (but that seems to be denying access at the moment) or http://sourceforge.net/projects/openpam/ Anyhow, for various reasons, not least easing the transition between Linux libpam and OpenPAM, not all the facilities from libpam were implemented under FreeBSD. One of those missing parts is pam_mail. So you're not going mad: that's the way it's supposed to work. Unfortunately what's missing is a port of the missing bits of Linux libpam. One way of getting the 'new mail' notification for your ssh(1) sessions would be to set 'UseLogin' in /etc/ssh/sshd_config -- see sshd_config(5). Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK
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