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Re: systemd & postgresql - flooding system log



On Sun, 16 Jul 2017, Erwan David wrote:
> Le 07/16/17 à 18:32, Don Armstrong a écrit :
> > If you don't care about this in your log, then you can either filter it,
> > or comment out pam_unix in /etc/pam.d/common-session-noninteractive.
>
> Commenting it will remove authentication methods ?

No. That's a session module, not an auth module. If you comment it out
from /etc/pam.d/common-auth, *then* bad things will happen.

Quoting from pam_unix(8):

  "The session component of this module logs when a user logins or leave the system."

You can read the source yourself, too:

http://sources.debian.net/src/pam/1.1.8-3.6/modules/pam_unix/pam_unix_sess.c/#L99

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