pam_env -- why is it an auth module?

I've been looking at the pam configuration on some of my debian boxes. I'm trying to set up pam_winbindd, but am going to have some issues with stacking. I saw that pam_env is enabled as an auth module, and saw this blurb in its config file: # The original idea for this came from Andrew G. Morgan

serial console options problem -- is a kernel or init problem?

I've noticed the following problem on all of my Debian machines that are set up for a serial console. This includes several 2.4 kernel revs and at least 1 2.6.0-test kernel rev. This leads me to think that this might not be a kernel problem, but a sysvinit issue. If anyone can point me in the right