pam modules and setuid actions

[Seven Reeds]

Thanks Thomas.  I had not seen it stated anywhere about the effective
0 uid.  That is not the behaviour I am seeing and as you say, broken
calling apps may muck this up.

I'm going to write my own setuid executable and use pam_exec.  thanks all



On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> PAM session modules (that is the modules configured in the session stack
> and called through the pam_sm_open_session() and pam_sm_close_session())
> expect to be called with effective uid == 0. So there should be no need
> to add any setuid helper for this functionality. Of course there might
> be non-compliant applications that call the session modules with regular
> user id but other modules will be broken for them as well.
> --
> Tomas Mraz
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