Re: PPP, Mount/Unmount

[Bob Taylor <brtaylor inreach com>]

In message <199908112040.QAA24105@tristan.devel.redhat.com>, "Michael K. 
Johnso
n" writes:

[snip]

> In Red Hat Linux, we have a tool which other distributions could
> easily pick up as long as they have PAM.  It is a small wrapper
> package that has a non-setuid gui part and a tiny setuid non-gui
> part that tells the gui part what to display and gets input back
> from the gui part.  In addition, the fact that it uses PAM means
> that it can be used for nearly arbitrary kinds of authentication.
> It *also* happens to work essentially transparently -- the calling
> application would run, say, /usr/bin/foo, which would authenticate
> the user, then run /usr/sbin/foo.  What's nice is that this can be
> set up to ask for passwords, or demand passwords only if the user
> is not at the system console, or *however the sysadmin wants it
> to be set up on a per-machine AND per-application basis*.  I can
> improve the wrapper as needed to meet new needs better; I know of
> one improvement I need already...

Michael,

What is the name of this little jewel of a tool?

Bob

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