Permissions problem

[Michael K. Johnson]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:35:44AM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> It happens regularly in the university computer society systems going back
> since RH7.x and so far nobody has figured out why. The pam code gets counting
> logins wrong in at least one module too which may or may not be related.

Hmm, it's been years since I was in that code.  ISTR doing proper
locking on the refcounting file (/var/run/console/$USER) even though
simultaneous console login sessions shouldn't really happen...

michaelkjohnson

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