Re: sash

[ruud@ruud.org (Ruud de Rooij)]

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.

	- Ruud de Rooij.
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