PAM on SuSE 10.0

Thorsten Kukuk kukuk at suse.de
Tue Jan 23 06:32:36 UTC 2007


On Mon, Jan 22, Nicholas Gillotte wrote:

> I am trying to set up a PAM permission rule for a specific device. All the 
> guides I found indicate that I should put the .perms file 
> in /etc/security/console.perms.d/. However, this directory does not exist on 
> my system. Infact, I did a search for *.perms, and came up empty. I figured 
> that either the directory didn't exist because I didn't have any rules, or 
> because SuSE implements PAM differently than Fedora. Just to be sure, I 
> created the directory and the rule, but it did not seem to work.

/etc/security/console.perms.d/ sounds like pam_console.so, this is
RedHat/Fedora specific. SuSE is using pam_resmgr.so

  Thorsten

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