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Date:      Thu, 25 Sep 2014 11:18:52 -0400
From:      Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com>
To:        Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Dag=2DErling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 10.1 BETA2 World - Breaks saslauthd
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com>
wrote:

> Yup, that worked.  Thanks!  Now, for those of us less than smart, could
> you explain why this was necessary in context of that MFC?
>

To me the implication is that before the MFC, PAM had a potentially quite
severe security issue involving either incorrect fallback to a default
configuration or not correctly handling error returns from a PAM stack ---
either of which could result in unauthorized users being permitted access.

-- 
brandon s allbery kf8nh                               sine nomine associates
allbery.b@gmail.com                                  ballbery@sinenomine.net
unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad        http://sinenomine.net



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