Re: Console user mount patch and FC3

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 13:33 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 12:20 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 11:59:37AM -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> > > This is in reference to RH bug#133941.  It is suggested I take this
> > > discussion to fedora-devel.  What is keeping this patch out of FC3?  I
> > 
> > Had a quick look. It contains an obvious missing null pointer check. Would
> > also need security review against pam_console and an explanation of why
> > it relies on pam_console innards (paths etc) 
> > 
> > > turn on this option after install.  I have looked at the patch and it is
> > > simple and does matching the same way we do it in dbus.  Getting this
> > 
> > If dbus is using getusername() I hope it to is considering NULL pointer
> > cases. I'd also like to know it is grovelling in pam related innards - do
> > we in fact need a libconsole library to wrap this from pam and utility sides ?
> > 
> > Alan
> 
> Issue is fixed in new patch.

Here is a quick link for the patch:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=104594&action=view

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