what does the "$ISA" mean in my pam configuration file , thanks!

[Thorsten Kukuk]

On Fri, Nov 23, liuruihong wrote:

> /etc/pam.d/other
> 
> #%PAM-1.0
> 
> auth     required       /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
> 
> account  required       /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
> 
> password required       /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
> 
> session  required       /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
> 
>  
> 
> what does the "$ISA" mean?

That's for 'biarch' systems, so that you can use a full
path to the modules for 32bit and 64bit.

For example, on such a system a 32bit application would
translate $ISA to ".", a 64bit application to "../../lib64/security"

  Thorsten

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