[sudo-users] pam session

Todd C. Miller Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Tue May 24 12:12:02 EDT 2005


In message <1116926417.4053.14.camel at petra>
	so spake Karel Zak (kzak):

> is there any real reason why 'sudo' doesn't use PAM session? It means
> the code doesn't call pam_open_session() and pam_close_sesssion(). 

This would require that the sudo process spawn a command and wait
until it finishes instead of just exec()ing the command as it does
now.

 - todd



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