OpenSSH, PAM and kerberos

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Tue Sep 3 11:31:13 UTC 2013


Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> des@ suggests to have ability to pass env variables from authorization
> daemon, but anyway, pam_setcred() should be called by shell process
> (or its parent), and not any process in system, am I right?

Everything pam_setcred() does can be done in a separate process, and the
result returned to the application using sendmsg().

DES
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