On 01/19/2010 07:55 PM, walt wrote:
On 01/18/2010 04:41 PM, walt wrote:
Here is what I see on both machines:
$su
Password: <===== I type Ctrl-d here
Segmentation fault
I've traced this problem to the pam_ssh package, which is supposed
to return a charstring containing the typed password, but it instead
returns a null pointer when I type Ctrl-d. Calamity ensues.
The key here is the pam_ssh package, which apparently the rest of you
don't use for authentication.
Just a quick question: what do you need PAM for? No it's not a
rhetorical question. I always wondered what PAM is good for; to find
out, I completely removed everything PAM related from my system ("-pam"
in make.conf and then rebuild everything and then depclean.) The system
works exactly the same as before. So I'm left wondering what PAM was
doing in the first place?
