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Date:      Sun, 16 Feb 2003 02:55:56 +0300
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libpam/modules/pam_opieaccess pam_opieaccess.c
Message-ID:  <20030215235556.GI72156@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <xzpof5dm7jg.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <200302152326.h1FNQnAr027546@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030215233943.GC72156@nagual.pp.ru> <xzpof5dm7jg.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 00:46:27 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> writes:
> > There is no needs to explicately allow localhost in /etc/opieaccess. It is
> > already works by default, as designed, see OPIE code.
> 
> It does not work by default; pam_opieaccess previously had special-
> case code to handle this (by explicitly allowing non-OPIE logins when
> PAM_RHOST was NULL).  This behaviour was very surprising to people who
> wanted to prevent OPIE users from using their passwords even locally,
> as they had no way of knowing that login(1) happened to set PAM_RHOST
> to NULL for local logins.

It means that pam_opieaccess() tries to handle localhost before 
accessfile.c instead of correctly passing "" there for localhost case.

> > /etc/opieaccess changes breaks POLA.
> 
> How?  They preserve historical behaviour while allowing admins to
> implement a stricter policy, should they wish to do so.

In non-PAMified OPIE environment there was no needs to directly specify 
localhost in /etc/opieaccess. Old configurations becomes broken after your 
change because miss "new" addition.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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