[redhat-lspp] Problem with pam_namespace.so

[Tomas Mraz]

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 13:00 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> We have found a problem with pam_namespace.so.
> 
> Basically if you go with the default configuration and you 
> polyinstatiate /tmp, /var/tmp and /home
> for all non-admin users, setting up su to unmnt_only or unmnt_remount 
> will not work as expected.  If you su to root, you will still see the 
> polyinstatiated directories.  The pam_namespace code checks if
> the user you are authenticating is polyinstated, if not it returns 
> success.  But this happens BEFORE
> the unmnt_* code.  So you do not get to see the previous polyinstatiated 
> file system.  I believe this is fixed in Rawhide but not in RHEL5.
Not yet, I'm just working on that.
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Tomas Mraz
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