krb5-1.12 is released

Russ Allbery eagle at eyrie.org
Thu Jan 9 11:35:18 EST 2014


Simo Sorce <simo at redhat.com> writes:

> This is odd, both sudo and su have 2 variants, one that just changes
> your credentials, and one that actually (supposedly) gives you the
> equivalent of a login shell (su -l and sudo -i). For the latter a new
> session should be actually created and the pam module is appropriate.
> If Debian does not differentiate already ... it looks like a bug.

Debian distinguishes between interactive and noninteractive sessions, yes.
But I don't believe that resetting the session keyring for an interactive
sudo is appropriate, and the author of the pam_keyinit man page seems to
agree with me.

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Russ Allbery (eagle at eyrie.org)              <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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