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

[Andrew Morgan]

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If you don't include any path, do you get the right behavior anyway?

  auth required pam_deny.so

Cheers

Andrew

Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> 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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