Re: Why doesn't Debian use GNU su?

[Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Marco" == Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> writes:

    Ben> I've gone through the source code to shadow's su, and while
    Ben> it *DOES* call pam_start() and pam_end(), it fails to call
    Ben> pam_open_session() and pam_close_session().

    Marco> I suppose this is the reason the tty device does not
    Marco> changes UID when I run su, isn't it?

If PAM is meant to do this, then yes.

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