very nasty bug in pam_succeed_if

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu Jun 10 16:50:11 UTC 2004


On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 11:19:42AM -0400, Paul Raines wrote:
> So the pam_succeed_if line in system-auth is really only needed if
> you use LDAP (which I don't)?

Yeah, or some other network auth protocol -- the problem before was that
when remote account info wasn't available (network down, for example), it
wasn't letting *local* accounts in -- even root.

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