Re: TTYSnooping error

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Nicolas George wrote:
> Still, this code should be using PAM instead of reinventing the wheel
> and making it octagonal.

Looks like ttysnoop's wheel was invented one year before PAM's wheel.
  https://sources.debian.net/src/ttysnoop/0.12d-6/ttysnoops.c
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggable_authentication_module

I understand it uses the password only as extra "security" feature,
because it refuses to start if geteuid() is not 0:
  https://sources.debian.net/src/ttysnoop/0.12d-6/ttysnoops.c/#L522


Have a nice day :)

Thomas