On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 06:28:56PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:41:05PM +0200, vor...@debian.org wrote:

> > 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.

> Here is a patch.

Thanks; I've submitted this patch upstream and am waiting for feedback.

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