tags 537848 confirmed
thanks

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:52:53PM +0200, Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) wrote:
> pam_securetty currently first checks if the user is valid and then checks
> if the tty is secure.

> pam_securetty should only avoid root's login on insecure tty.
> pam_securetty can consider invalid users as possibly mis-typed root users,
> but those invalid users should not be rejected (by pam_securetty) on
> secure ttys.

> This was triggered by the discussion on http://bugs.debian.org/531341

I agree, the module should not enforce username checks on secure ttys.  Any
chance you could provide a patch for this?  If not, I'll put it in my queue.

Thanks,
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