Bug 14646

Summary: pam_console emits debugging messages when debugging is not turned on
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Chris Siebenmann <cks-rhbugzilla>
Component: pamAssignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
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make the debugging messages actually debugging messages none

Description Chris Siebenmann 2000-07-25 23:40:53 UTC 
The new pam_console RPM emits debugging messages, messages about
perfectly normal and expected conditions, when the 'debug' argument
has not been specified to pam_console. The two immediately noticeable
(and annoying) messages are:
	console %s is owned by UID 0
and	console %s is a character device
These messages mean nothing more than that everything is OK. As such
they should only be emitted when debugging is turned on. Worse yet,
the code attempts to send them out at priority LOG_ERR, which should
be saved for things that indicate, well, important errors.

 I will attach a simple patch to fix this.
Comment 1 Chris Siebenmann 2000-07-25 23:41:25 UTC 
Created attachment 1553 [details]
make the debugging messages actually debugging messages
Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-07-26 19:20:59 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 14644 ***