PAM Module Patch and Feature

[Frank Cusack]

On March 26, 2007 8:57:38 AM -0600 David Mitchell <mitchell at ucar.edu> wrote:
> Frank Cusack wrote:
>> The new feature is a 'localifdown' option.  Previously, you would need
>> to be using Linux-PAM and the extended pam.conf syntax to ignore
>> PAM_AUTHINFO_UNAVAIL return values.  Now, with 'localifdown', the module
>> returns PAM_IGNORE instead of PAM_AUTHINFO_UNAVAIL, which works for
>> all pam stacks.
>
> Nice. Will this be the case for all timeout situations? Or only if the
> local interface is actually down? I was actually experimenting with the
> extended syntax last week when I found the timeout problem.

All timeouts.  Is there a different behavior you would like?

-frank