Re: [Proftpd-devel] PAM_TTY (mod_auth_pam)

[TJ S. <tj...@ca...>]

> > > It's needed under FreeBSD 6.x (problem report bin/118144).
> > What happens if the specified TTY is not actually valid?  For in the case
> > of a connecting client, there is not a real TTY associated...
>
> TTY value is used only by pam modules, not by the library itself. I've
> checked all the modules coming with FreeBSD and they use TTY only for
> access-lists checking and logging purposes. None of them expect it to be
> a real device.

Fair enough.  I've opened:

  http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3014

to track this.  There is a patch attached to that bug report which should
work as you'd like.  Please test the patch, and report the results in the
bug report there.

Cheers,
TJ

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