Bug 241797 - shared polyinstantiated directories
Summary: shared polyinstantiated directories
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: pam
Version: 5.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Tomas Mraz
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Reported: 2007-05-30 18:25 UTC by Ted X Toth
Modified: 2008-04-03 16:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-04-03 16:12:41 UTC
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patch to add level_user and context_user methods of polyinstantiation (2.07 KB, patch)
2007-05-30 18:25 UTC, Ted X Toth
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Description Ted X Toth 2007-05-30 18:25:58 UTC
Description of problem:
With the current implementation of pam_namespace there is no way to create a
polyinstantiated directory which can be shared by multiple users by level or
context. When polyinstantiating by level or context the users name is always
appended to the instance directory name. We make extensive use of directories
that are polyinstantiated only by level in the CMW version of our product to
allow multiple clients to write files to 'shared' polyinstantiated directories.

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Comment 1 Ted X Toth 2007-05-30 18:25:58 UTC
Created attachment 155722 [details]
patch to add level_user and context_user methods of polyinstantiation

Comment 2 Tomas Mraz 2007-05-31 07:38:12 UTC
I agree that this feature would be useful, but we shouldn't break backwards
compatibility. So I propose using 'lvlshared' and 'ctxshared' for the new methods.


Comment 3 Tomas Mraz 2008-04-03 16:12:41 UTC
This will be fixed in future Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. A fix is already
in upstream and Fedora development as well.



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