[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] added new pam client protocol

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 12:33 +0200, Sumit Bose wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this patch introduces a new version of the pam client protocol. I
> think
> it is more flexible as the current \0-terminated-string format. Now
> every item has a type (PAM_USER, PAM_TTY, ...), a size and a value.
> With
> the help of the size information it is possible to ignore unknown
> types.
> This way we can add new items without changing the underlying protocol
> and client and server can be updated independently. As an example the
> pam client adds its current locale which is currently not understood
> by
> the server.

ack and pushed

Simo.

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