Problem writing module

[Max Campos]

It sounds like it might be the app.  At any rate, I personally use this 
test harness to get everything ironed out, _THEN_ I start testing with 
actual apps.  It makes it really easy to see what's going on.

http://www.zip.com.au/~dtucker/patches/#pamtest

This is a very hand gem!  (Thanks to Darren Tucker!)

- Max

On Jan 21, 2005, at 6:10 am, Thiago Silva wrote:

> Hello all.
> I'm currently developing a module for PAM and having some difficulties.
> First, the module is linked with the NSS lib (from mozilla). Trying it 
> on
> login, wverything runs well, pam_sm_authenticate() returns 
> PAM_SUCCESS, and
> there comes the problem. The login locks for some time, and then, 
> prints a
> message of time out, showing the login prompt again. I have no idea 
> why is
> this happening. I've tried to substitude the module's code for the
> pam_permit.c code, wich gave me another error: "Login incorrect" (the
> pam_sm_authenticate wasn't called and I assume that was because the 
> little
> code was linked to the NSS lib and something went wrong when loading 
> the
> module)...Does anyone know this behaviour or can help me debugging?? I 
> have
> no idea how to debug the login...
>
> Also, I did a little program that uses this module, and, 
> pam_authenticate()
> returns PAM_SUCCESS, and then, the shell is available again. So, 
> nothing
> strange here. Only when using it with login.