Bug 230729

Summary:	have pam_items able to describe device and display unambigously
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Patrice Dumas <pertusus>
Component:	pam	Assignee:	Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
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Description Patrice Dumas 2007-03-02 15:29:52 UTC

Description of problem:

The is related with #Bug 228110.

The PAM_TTY value is so overloaded that it has lost lots of
its meaning. Besides having device and display in PAM_TTY
means that only one of those two items may be given.

So I think it would make sense to propose to upstream
to add 2 new items:
PAM_DEVICE the device file associated with the service,
  typically empty for network services like ssh or ftp
PAM_DISPLAY a display string describing the display. 
  May be set by network services that sets a virtual display,
  will be empty for typical login.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

pam-0.99.7.1-3

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Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2008-01-30 15:55:00 UTC

The proposal for this new PAM_REAL_TTY was rejected upstream.