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Hello, Dag-Erling.
You wrote 3 =D1=81=D0=B5=D0=BD=D1=82=D1=8F=D0=B1=D1=80=D1=8F 2013 =D0=B3., =
15:30:43:

>> des@ suggests to have ability to pass env variables from authorization
>> daemon, but anyway, pam_setcred() should be called by shell process
>> (or its parent), and not any process in system, am I right?
DES> Everything pam_setcred() does can be done in a separate process, and t=
he
DES> result returned to the application using sendmsg().
 Why do we need separate daemon for it? Why it could not be built-in to sshd
itself? One more daemon -- one more point of failure...

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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>