Re: [Fwd: action.size can be used without previously being assigned to inpam_xauth.c]

[Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin redhat com>]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 12:18:02PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote:
> > The current pam errata package for Red Hat Linux should fix this
> > problem, as the pam_xauth module has had some radical surgery in the
> > last few months, removing refcounting altogether in favor of using
> > session-specific authority files.
> 
> Thanks. Do you know what Mandrake 8.1 users like me should do?

I don't know to what extent the Mandrake package diverges from the Red
Hat package -- the safest thing is probably to download the source
package, install it, compile it using "rpm -bc pam.spec", and use
"install" to install the one module in /lib/security.  If it doesn't
work as expected, just re-install the Mandrake pam package, and it'll
revert the module to the original version.

I'd recommend just rebuilding the package and installing it, but I don't
know if that would leave you without a module you're referencing in a
configuration file somewhere.

HTH,

Nalin