Re: Checking if PAM is used by login

["David Resnick" <abunetta gmail com>]

Great! Thanks a lot. This is just what I was looking for. 

One thing I don't understand though is what happens if PAM is uninstalled. Will this prevent 'login' (for example) from running at all? Is a new 'login' binary put in place when the PAM RPM is installed?

-David

On 6/26/07, Kenneth Geisshirt <kenneth geisshirt dk> wrote:

On Tue, June 26, 2007 14:11, David Resnick wrote:

> Though I am hoping for something more definitive (in case, for example,
> the
> logged activity is old and PAM has since been disabled).

I don't follow you. PAM is not a service but a library (with plugins in
the form of shared objects - .so files). You don't simply disable PAM.
Take the /bin/login program - it is used for login at the console. Try to
run ldd /bin/login and see that this program is linked with libpam.so .
Then check /etc/pam.d/login to see how login is using PAM.

/kneth

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