Better group membership checking for pam_listfile item=group

Paul B. Henson henson at acm.org
Tue Dec 8 21:34:42 UTC 2009


On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Solar Designer wrote:

> I don't know if the re-implementation shares the same inefficiency that
> you're addressing with a patch to the original implementation now.

Looks like it does; I don't know how much the stock pam_listfile has
changed from what it was when you guys replaced it, but you might want to
consider applying a similar change to yours, it makes it a lot more
efficient and actually usable in a large environment.


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