On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 02:02:53PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 01:45:05PM +0100, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 07:37:09PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > > Looking at the sysvinit bugs in Debian, I came across
> > > <URL: http://bugs.debian.org/68621 > again, asking for PAM support in
> > > sulogin. This sound like a good idea to me. Werner, what is your
> > > view on this?
> >
> > AFAICS from the patch only init.c is handled with PAM but
> > not sulogin ... ?)
>
> OK. Probably just me remembering the patch wrong. :)
>
> s/sulogin/init/ :)
>
> What is your view on adding PAM support to sysvinit?
>From my current SVN
+ * Add fix for Debian bug #536574 -- Can be enabled by -DACCTON_OFF
+ * Add helper program fstab-decode to make it easier to handle
+ /etc/mtab content. Patch by Miloslav Trmac and Fedora.
+ * Add fix for Debian bug #335023 - Make sure TERM is set on FreeBSD.
+ * Add fix for Debian bug #374038 - Make it clear that shutdown -c can
+ only cancel a waiting shutdown, not an active one.
+ * Add not to pidof manual page about the use of readlink(2). Patch by
+ Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
+ * Add changes for Debian bug #68621 - Add PAM support for programs spawned
+ by init on the console like sulogin. Based on patch by Topi Miettinen.
... just testing the stuff
Werner
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