Bug 170524

Summary:	"auth include service=system-auth" breaks consolehelper
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Robert Scheck <redhat-bugzilla>
Component:	pam	Assignee:	Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
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URL:	https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-October/msg00050.html
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Description Robert Scheck 2005-10-12 16:01:53 UTC

Description of problem:
If you've for example the following situation:

--- /dev/null                           2005-08-30 23:51:26.920796000 +0200
+++ /etc/security/console.apps/yum      2005-10-06 00:14:48.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+USER=root
+PROGRAM=/usr/sbin/yum
+GUI=no
+SESSION=true

--- /dev/null                           2005-08-30 23:51:26.920796000 +0200
+++ /etc/pam.d/yum                      2005-10-06 00:14:48.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#%PAM-1.0
+auth       sufficient   pam_rootok.so
+auth       sufficient   pam_timestamp.so
+auth       include      service=system-auth
+session    required     pam_permit.so
+session    optional     pam_xauth.so
+session    optional     pam_timestamp.so
+account    required     pam_permit.so

then consolehelper won't work at calling yum as non-root user (symlink from 
yum to consolehelper has to exist, of course).

But if you've got:

--- /dev/null                           2005-08-30 23:51:26.920796000 +0200
+++ /etc/pam.d/yum                      2005-10-06 00:14:48.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#%PAM-1.0
+auth       sufficient   pam_rootok.so
+auth       sufficient   pam_timestamp.so
+auth       required     pam_stack.so service=system-auth
+session    required     pam_permit.so
+session    optional     pam_xauth.so
+session    optional     pam_timestamp.so
+account    required     pam_permit.so

then consolehelper will work. But last method (using pam_stack.so) is (will 
be) deprecated and obsoleted, as Tomas Mraz wrote at fedora-devel-list (see 
archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-October/msg00050.html).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
usermode-1.81-1
pam-0.80-9

How reproducible:
Everytime, see above.

Actual results:
consolehelper doesn't work as expected

Expected results:
consolehelper should work as expected

Comment 1 Jindrich Novy 2005-10-13 12:28:06 UTC

Ok, this looks like a PAM thing, reassigning to PAM. If not, please reassign back.

Comment 2 Tomas Mraz 2005-10-13 12:39:47 UTC

You have the syntax wrong.

Use: 'auth       include      system-auth'

Also the configuration utilites should use this simple pam config instead of
explicitely calling pam_timestamp and so on:

#%PAM-1.0
auth            include         config-util
account         include         config-util
session         include         config-util

The config-util file is provided by pam >= 0.80-9