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Date:      Fri, 23 May 2003 16:33:09 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Frank Bonnet <bonnetf@bart.esiee.fr>
Subject:   Re: 5.1 beta2 still in trouble with pam_ldap
Message-ID:  <xzpr86pwx5m.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <20030523062848.GG17107@sunbay.com> (Ruslan Ermilov's message of "Fri, 23 May 2003 09:28:48 %2B0300")
References:  <20030522184631.A23366@bart.esiee.fr> <xzp65o2zkhf.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030522224850.GK87863@roark.gnf.org> <xzpof1uy28n.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030523060846.GC17107@sunbay.com> <xzp4r3mxjrx.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030523062848.GG17107@sunbay.com>

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Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> writes:
> In a chain with mutiple "binding" modules, only the _last_
> failure gets ignored?  Meaning, if some other module succeeds,
> override the failure status, right?

Failure of a "binding" module causes the entire chain to fail once it
has completed.  The error returned is that returned by the first
non-"optional", non-"sufficient" module that failed.

Failure of a "sufficient" module, on the other hand, is always ignored
(so if no other non-"optional", non-"sufficient" module failed, the
chain will succeed).  This is what constantly surprises users, and
what "binding" was introduced to alleviate.

See the PAM article for details - particularly the following two
sections:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/pam/pam-essentials.html#PAM-CHAINS-POLICIES
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/pam/pam-config.html#PAM-POLICIES

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org



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