[OpenAFS-devel] [PATCH] new features for pam_afs

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Carsten Jacobi wrote:

> > Can you offer details as to why this was the case?
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> where Thomas Mueller introduces his changes:
> "- use_klog
> The PAM-Module is forced to use the program klog to verify the identity of the
> user and fetch a token respectively. Because of problems in the interactions of
> the memory management of applications with the PAM module it may be necessary
> that the PAM module is performing the authentication not directly with the
> authentication server by itself (neither in the main process nor in a sub
> process), but call the external program klog (i.e. kdm from KDE 2.x)
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> Does this answer your question?

Not exactly. I was looking for the gory detail; I guess it'll have to be
one of those things I experience for myself when I have the time to do so,
so I can try to figure out what exactly is going on.

-D