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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Place to call pam_loginuid in the pam session stack
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:59:46 -0400
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On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 07:30:44 PM Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This is maybe a dumb question, but is there any preferred place in the
> pam session stack to call pam_loginuid?
> 
> Is it preferable to call it just after "pam_selinux close" or is any
> place OK? I guess the sooner the better so the needed information are
> present to audit what the other pam modules are doing?

I think that as long as its set before a user can cause any action to occur on 
their behalf is all that is required. If there is a pam module that looks in a 
user's home directory for settings and then does something based on that, then 
you'd need to set it before that module.

-Steve