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#39: pam_access docs are incomplete/misleading
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Reporter: kop | Owner: pam-developers@…
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Component: documentation
Version: | Keywords: pam_access
Blocked By: | Blocking:
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The pam_access docs are incomplete regarding how daemons
and X sessions are handled. (LOCAL access that
does not have an associated tty.) This makes the
example regarding X sessions confusing and appear
to contain more "fields" than the documentation allows.
The attached patch clarifies the docs.
Note that the patch was submitted to
pam-developers(a)lists.fedorahosted.org.
Date: 2014-09-01
https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/pam-
developers/2014-September/000652.html
See also:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=762110
The following text describes the license under which this patch is
submitted (since fedorahosted seems to want licenseing information with a
patch):
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Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/linux-pam/ticket/39>
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