[SSSD] [PATCH] Rename PAM_USER_INFO to PAM_SYSTEM_INFO

Sumit Bose sbose at redhat.com
Fri Jan 8 14:30:32 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 03:10:21PM +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 15:01 +0100, Sumit Bose wrote: 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > this patch just renames PAM_USER_INFO to PAM_SYSTEM_INFO. Currently
> > PAM_USER_INFO is only used to send messages which are written to syslog
> > by the PAM client. It is planned to add new messages which will be
> > displayed to the user, e.g. if offline authentication was used. To avoid
> > confusion I think this name change makes sense.
> 
> I suggest to rename all the PAM_ prefixed constants which do not come
> from PAM library directly to SSSPAM_ prefix to avoid confusion or name
> conflict with the PAM library. Although I understand that is possibly an
> API break.
> 

I like this idea, I'll try to prepare a patch for this.

bye,
Sumit



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