PAM_IGNORE not being handled correctly

[Mike Wham]

Thank you very much! That "tutorial" page was misleading, then.


On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Pá, 2014-02-28 at 20:13 -0600, Mike Wham wrote:
> > I'm trying to solve what I believe to be a red-hat / CentOS specific
> issue
> > with PAM_IGNORE.
> > Using this example code <http://www.makelinux.net/alp/084> as a base,
> I'm
> > trying to authenticate with a pam module which I made in PAM
> > Python.<
> http://ace-host.stuart.id.au/russell/files/pam_python/doc/index.html>
> > I
> > just replaced the "su" with my module.
> >
> > PAM_SUCCESS and PAM_AUTH_ERR work fine, but I get error code 6
> > (PAM_PERM_DENIED) when the module gives me PAM_IGNORE.
> >
> > Is there something about this conversation function that is wrong, or is
> > there something different between the RHEL implementation of PAM and that
> > found in Ubuntu?
>
> PAM_IGNORE should never be returned to the application.
>
> --
> Tomas Mraz
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