Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 17:28:39 +0200 From: Volker Stolz <stolz@hyperion.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> To: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: login(1) now forks the shell instead of exec'ing it ? Message-ID: <20011027172839.A793@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <20011026160930.D378@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es> References: <20011026154851.B378@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es> <17070000.1004104497@vpn68.ece.cmu.edu> <20011026160930.D378@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es>
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In local.freebsd-stable, you wrote: > Anyway, I am a bit sad after losing the traditional login(1) behavior. :-) You're right, it even makes things harder to understand (& verify). There do exist other languages which will allow you to do something similar to calling "login", but returning to your code afterwards. But I'm really oversimplyfying things and you surely don't want to use these programming languages for OS binaries (yet!) :-) OTOH, how about passing on PAM-credentials on to login and telling it via a switch to close PAM on termination? Of course this would imply some magic, I'm sure. [F'Up to -hackers. Maybe someone has a flash of inspiration?] -- Volker Stolz * stolz@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de * PGP + S/MIME To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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