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#52 Howto get pam_mount + sudo to work correctly

Milestone: pam-mount

Status: pending-duplicate

Owner: Jan Engelhardt

Labels: pam-mount (40)

Priority: 5

Updated: 2012-01-10

Created: 2012-01-10

Creator: SpeckFleck

Private: No

When using pam_mount to mount a crypto-home, calling e.g. 'sudo echo blarz' produces weird behaviour. pmvarrun increases root's session counter by 1 and decreases user's session counter by 1 - leading to an erroneous unmount attempt. The reason seems to be that pam is called with uid 0 for login procedure and with the user's uid for the logout.

Is this a pam_mount or a sudo fail? How could it be fixed? As this seems to be a common setup, it would be nice to have at least a workaround.

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Jan Engelhardt - 2012-01-10

This sounds a lot like this sudo crime:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=648066

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Jan Engelhardt - 2012-01-10

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