pam config

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 00:34, Adam Kosmin wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm looking at my pam configuration and noticed something odd in
> /etc/pam.d/other
> 
> Each line contains a reference to a path that does not exist. For
> example:
> 
> auth	required	/lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
> 
> My filesystem does not contain a directory path of /lib/security/$ISA so
> I can't help but become curious.

$ISA is a variable reference which, under normal circumstances, usually
expands to nothing so, in fact, you're referencing
"/lib/security//pam_deny.so" or "/lib/security/pam_deny.so"