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@brynet @benjamineskola @judfilm @brightside
You in fact _are_ talking about PAM, though, because that's where 50% of the the #ifdef __Linux__ conditional compilation actually is, and 25% of it is in comments. (-:
Example: https://github.com/slicer69/doas/blob/master/doas.c#L423
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@brynet @benjamineskola @judfilm @brightside
Speaking as someone who put an event loop calling kevent() inside a #PAM conversation function just recently, I can say with authority that at least one of the tenets of that page is entirely wrong.
It's right about #LinuxPAM being buggy, and the fact that xyr bug got filed randomly against Fedora instead of against LinuxPAM itself is just one of the reasons that this sort of "upstream-downstream" development model is so frustrating.
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@brynet @benjamineskola @judfilm @mark @brightside
Ironically, one of its open bugs is completely down to #PAM, specifically #LinuxPAM not doing what #OpenPAM does.
https://github.com/slicer69/doas/issues/17#issuecomment-1553249174
The other open bug has a very simple and blunt answer: #doas cannot compile an ioctl() out of the Linux kernel. This is a bug against #Linux, the world knows it, and the bug filer should know it.
