pam_open_session returns PAM_SUCCESS but no pam session?

[Dan Yefimov]

On 06.12.2010 1:11, Henk te Sligte wrote:
> I know about the first parameter, the xsh script has "xsh" by default,
> so that's what I am using. Obviously, I did create my own in
> /etc/pam.d, which is described in my first mail.
> I figured from the examples, xsh.c would spawn a shell with the new
> logged in user, because it got the credentials from PAM. Why else is
> there the system() call in xsh.c (From the examples, in the release
> build)?
>
Did you think about your example being incomplete? Please read the PAM 
documentation carefully instead of arguing with me. The fact is that PAM job is 
only user authentication, everything other, like applying UID, GID, 
supplementary GIDs, is the application job, whether you agree with that or not.
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Sincerely Yours, Dan.