[PAM] service names: What should they be?
I've added PAM support to my IMAP package. This has a total of three
daemons which can use PAM: /usr/sbin/imapd (in imap), /us/sbin/ipop2d and
/us/sbin/ipop3d (in ipopd.) I know I have to create files in /etc/pam.d
for them but what should they be called?
Here is what the PAM documentation says:
The syntax of files contained in the /etc/pam.d/ direc
tory, are identical except for the absence of any service
field. In this case, the service is the name of the file
in the /etc/pam.d/ directory. This filename must be in
lower case.
and
The service is typically the familiar name of the corre
sponding application: login and su are good examples. The
service-name, other, is reserved for giving default rules.
Only lines that mention the current service (or in the
absence of such, the other entries) will be associated
with the given service-application.
What is the familiar name for imap? (I've assumed it is imap and it
seems to work.) How about pop-2? pop-3? Do these names come from
/etc/services, the package name, the daemon name, a central registry or
somewhere else?
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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
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