[pkg-fso-maint] nodm (was Re: Upload to main?)

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Sonntag, den 05.10.2008, 23:35 +0200 schrieb Luca Capello:
> On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:38:30 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > Am Freitag, den 03.10.2008, 18:09 +0200 schrieb Luca Capello:
> > I’m pondering about providing a general pam-helper binary that could be
> > used by others as well (e.g. FreeNX is abusing ssh or su for a similar
> > reason), but there are some security problems with a general binary
> > (i.e. one that let’s you specify the session type).
> 
> Can't the session be passed as an option or in a configuration file?

If the program is ran by root (as it is in our case), yes. But FreeNX
runs as an unpriveliged user first. But that’s a different issue,
shouldn’t bother us now.

Greetings,
Joachim
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