Re: PAM version of "wheel group" su validation

[Cristian Gafton <gafton sorosis ro>]

On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Al Longyear wrote:

> Since you are so familiar with the shadow password suite, do you think   
> that you may wish to do that? All that should be required is to fetch the   
> values from the current pam handle for the user name and tty name   
> (defaulting to ttyname(0) if there is no tty name) and then using the   
> logic from the shadow function to validate the access.
> 
> Does this sound interesting, or at least as a place to "get your feet   
> wet"?

Yes, I think this is the kind of job to help me get used with PAm. I am 
just reading my PAM paper right now, so please bare with me the next 
couple of days until I clarify myself some issues. If I'll have problems, 
I will start screaming at pam-list.


So, I will try to take care of this thing.

		Cristian Gafton
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