Re: sash
* Ruud de Rooij (ruud@ruud.org) [990924 08:40]:
> Michael Neuffer <neuffer@alpha.mz.rhein-main.de> writes:
>
> > * Raul Miller (moth@debian.org) [990923 16:15]:
> > > On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 07:32:50AM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote:
> > > > Couldn't sash include a PAM module that would change the password to
> > > > match root's password whenever it was changed? Or am I oversimplifying
> > > > things?
> > >
> > > I don't have enough confidence in Debian's pam, yet, to insist that
> > > everyone that wants to use sash must implement pam support before
> > > using sash.
> >
> > Depending on PAM would be a fatal mistake.
> > sash is for situations when your system is FUBARed,
> > therefore you can not assume that you will still have
> > a working PAM subsystem either.
> >
> > It must be completely standalone without needing any external
> > libraries.
>
> This is _not_ about the sash executable itself using PAM. It was a
> proposal to use the PAM functionality to ensure that the root and
> sashroot passwords remain in sync, i.e., whenever root's password is
> changed, change the sashroot password as well.
Ooops..... I understood it differently.
I take my argument back.
Mike
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