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Date:      Fri, 23 May 2003 21:41:09 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 5.1 beta2 still in trouble with pam_ldap
Message-ID:  <xzp1xypwiwa.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <20030523193724.GA9240@sunbay.com> (Ruslan Ermilov's message of "Fri, 23 May 2003 22:37:24 %2B0300")
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Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Why pam_nologin in the "auth" chain of the "login" service is marked
> "required" and not "requisite", and why do we have the "required" at
> all?  What's the point in continuing with the chain if we are going
> to return the failure anyway?  What's the real application of
> "required" as compared to "requisite"?

Information leak.  The applicant screwed up, but we don't want to let
him know that until he's jumped through all the *other* hoops as well;
otherwise he might learn something about our authentication setup from
the premature error message.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org



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