Re: 7.3.2, pam, on Linux 2.4.18-18.7.x i686

Hi Ara,

Have you got any things from pam-linux mailing list? I am also
interested in their opinions.

Kochin Chang

ahoward <ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov> wrote in message news:<Pine.LNX.4.53.0305171931240.4785@eli.fsl.noaa.gov>...
>
> thanks alot for the detailed description - i suspected that to be the case,
> but it's good to have confirmed.  it would seem that making a pam module to
> handle this case would be preferable to allow postgresql to run as root, since
> that would seem to open many root shell exploits...
>
> i've posted a similar email to pam-linux and am waiting for a response from
> that group as well.
>
> -a
>