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2000 Feb 25
0
Letting PAM add a user
...efaults instead of pw from getpwnam() if allowed_user() returns false. However, I would rather use a real version of sshd, so I suggest there be some changes made to allow for better PAM-usage. For that, the (or a) call to getpwnam() must be run AFTER pam has checked authorization and account (my pam_useradd is an account module). First, pw is sent by to start_pam(). start_pam() only uses pw->pw_name though, so I suggest sending in user instead of pw. Second, pw is used to compare uid if not running as root. This check I suppose could be done after auth_pam_password() ? If these changes aren...
2008 Dec 09
21
Selective Compression/Encryption
Currently compression and I assume if encryption is implemented it is turned on or off during mount. There are however many times when a user may want to select which files/directories they want to compress or encrypt. This will also be helpful when implementing btrfs support in grub for example. We can say the disk can be compressed/encrypted except for /boot so compression/encryption