Subject: Re: PAM and su -K
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/21/2005 12:47:13
[Thus spake Martin Husemann ("MH: ") 9:06am...]

MH: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:09:22PM -0800, Greywolf wrote:
MH: > So PAM is going to force dynamic loading in the root utilities, thus
MH: > preventing one from building one's /bin and /sbin statically
MH:
MH: This does not strictly follow from what Jason said. If it were the case
MH: it would even prevent us from creating install media ;-)

That's because you don't need authentication programs on the install
media.


				--*greywolf;
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