Checking if PAM is used by login

[David Resnick]

Hi,

A configuration change is something that I will be looking out for, just as
long as I know that the config files are relevant.

-David

On 6/26/07, Tobias Schaefer <T.Schaefer at science-computing.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > I don't follow you. PAM is not a service but a library (with plugins in
> > the form of shared objects - .so files). You don't simply disable PAM.
> > Take the /bin/login program - it is used for login at the console. Try
> to
> > run ldd /bin/login and see that this program is linked with libpam.so.
> > Then check /etc/pam.d/login to see how login is using PAM.
>
> on the other hand sshd could stop PAM authentication due to a
> configuration change. The library would still be linked in, but its code
> would no longer be executed. (The same could happen with apache and other
> programs.)
>
> You could configure a logging module into the PAM stack. Some 10 years ago
> I wrote such a module to debug PAM problems. The module is still available
> via http://www.rz.uni-hohenheim.de/~schaefer/linux/pam/index.html. But it
> probably won't compile out of the box since it was only tested with Linux
> distributions that have long since passed away.
>
>
> Tobias
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