Is this a reasonable approach?

Andy Armstrong andy at hexten.net
Tue Jan 4 14:03:15 UTC 2005


Andy Armstrong wrote:
> Ah, the cleanup hook. I think that would do the trick thanks. I don't 
> think the case where the program dies without the cleanup happening is 
> too much of a problem for me so that could be the answer, thanks.
> 
> I'll make some changes to the code and run the tests again and then make 
> a release. Thanks for the help.

Here you go:
  http://hexten.net/sw/pam_abl/index.mhtml

I couldn't get the cleanup hook to work exactly as expected - no matter 
whether authentication had failed it always seems to get PAM_SUCCESS. As 
suggested I'm now using the pam_sm_setcred hook to indicated that 
authentication has succeeded and that's working well, thanks.

-- 
Andy Armstrong




More information about the Pam-list mailing list