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