OpenBSM questions

Garrett Wollman wollman at bimajority.org
Sat Jul 14 18:28:57 UTC 2007


<<On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:45:14 +0100 (BST), Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org> said:

> This is correct -- login services must be modified to properly set up user 
> audit state at login.  I am not familiar with work relating to this with xdm, 
> kdm, gdm, etc, but it would be very good to see this happen.

Surely this is something that belongs in a PAM module...?  The whole
point of the PAM framework is that you should *not* have to modify
every program that does a login when new mechanisms are introduced or
policy changes.

-GAWollman



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