why "auth sufficient pam_deny.so" accepts *ANY AND ALL* passwords!?!??

[Thorsten Kukuk]

On Mon, Feb 06, Christian Seberino wrote:

> Thorsten
> 
> Thanks! Wow so pam_unix.so NEVER returns a failure code?
> As you said, it either returns a success code or else return
> code is *ignored*?!?!

Read again. I said nothing about pam_unix.so, I spoke about "sufficent".

> On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 07:10 +0100, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 02, Christian Seberino wrote:
> > 
> > > How come if I change "required" to "sufficient" on the pam_deny
> > > line of common-auth file below it then allows all login attempts to
> > > succeed!?!
> > 
> > Because sufficent means: If the module returns PAM_SUCCESS, return
> > with success, else ignore. If you have only sufficient modules, there
> > is no failed.
> > 
> >   Thorsten
> > 
> 



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