pam_open_session returns PAM_SUCCESS but no pam session?

[Thorsten Kukuk]

On Sun, Dec 05, Henk te Sligte wrote:

> 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)?

Yes, xsh spawns a new shell, but not with the new logged
in user. xsh is not su or a su replacement.
xsh does not login at all, it does _user authentication_.
That's all.

  Thorsten

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