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Date:      Sun, 27 Jan 2002 21:33:15 +0100
From:      Volker Stolz <stolz@hyperion.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PAM, setusercontext, kdm and ports/32273
Message-ID:  <20020127213315.A13272@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <20020127131941.C295@localhost>
References:  <20020126224243.A72777@localhost> <3C534F33.2755EED9@mindspring.com> <20020127115514.A295@localhost> <3C53F08E.66E3E4D5@mindspring.com> <20020127131941.C295@localhost>

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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.

> 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.
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