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Date:      Fri, 11 May 2007 18:10:20 +0400
From:      Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
To:        Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libpam/modules/pam_unix pam_unix.8 pam_unix.c
Message-ID:  <20070511141019.GD21145@comp.chem.msu.su>
In-Reply-To: <20070501190742.GC51428@comp.chem.msu.su>
References:  <200704260639.l3Q6d1SH027885@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070426105458.GA98415@nevermind.kiev.ua> <20070426114638.GC77408@submonkey.net> <20070427160740.GF3991@comp.chem.msu.su> <20070430131503.GY77408@submonkey.net> <20070430134227.GG32601@comp.chem.msu.su> <20070430134617.GZ77408@submonkey.net> <20070501190742.GC51428@comp.chem.msu.su>

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On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:07:42PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 02:46:18PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 05:42:28PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 02:15:04PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Well, we currently have an *NP* case as per above, but not a *LK* case,
> > > > so I disagree somewhat.
> > > 
> > > Why?  Now *LOCKED* in FreeBSD is nearly the same as *LK* in Solaris
> > > with the only difference being that cron or at doesn't seem to care
> > > about it.  And a single asterisk works for us as *NP* does in
> > > Solaris, although it isn't a prefix, it occupies the whole password
> > > field.  Did I miss anything?
> > 
> > Well, because of the cron thing :)
> 
> If we want to propagate account locking semantics to cron and atrun,
> which is a good idea IMHO, we should avoid code duplication.  I
> haven't yet found a suitable place in src/lib to put the check at,
> but we need to find one as more checks can be done there, e.g.,
> that for expired account because expired accounts shouldn't run
> scheduled jobs either.  Any ideas?  Of course, the most obvious way
> is to add the respective function to libutil, but I'm still unsure
> if it's the best way.

I think I've finally got the clue.  It's -- surprise! -- PAM account
management via pam_unix(8).  PAM-ifying cron and atrun can do the
job.  Then they will also be able to respect nologin(5) etc via
pam.conf(5), and no more patches will be necessary.

-- 
Yar



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