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Subject: Re: PAM rules inside pam.d
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Ivan Grover <ivangrvr299@gmail.com> writes:
> I have my PAM rules for my service as
>
> auth       required    /lib/security/pam_securetty.so
> auth       required     pam_stack.so service=3Dsystem-auth
> auth       required     /lib/security/pam_nologin.so

What is pam_stack supposed to do?

> I have checked the username, password passed to PAM module by changing the
> sources of pam_nologin.so, they are proper. I didnt had sources for
> pam_unix, so iam not able to detect the exact problem.

Uh, they're in the source tree along with everything else.

DES
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