Bug 32055

Summary:	pam_ck_connector.so should propably "special case" PAM_RHOST named "localhost"
Product:	ConsoleKit	Reporter:	Samuli Suominen <ssuominen>
Component:	PAM module	Assignee:	william.jon.mccann
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
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Description Samuli Suominen 2010-12-02 09:57:08 UTC

SLIM [1] is setting PAM_RHOST to "localhost" making ConsoleKit's pam_ck_connector.so think it's a remote host called localhost instead of actual localhost.

It would propably make sense to special case PAM_RHOST named "localhost".

Meanwhile I've reported this to SLIM developers here:

https://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=17757&group_id=2663

[1] http://slim.berlios.de

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen 2010-12-02 10:11:53 UTC

Just so you don't get me wrong: Feel free to close this as WONTFIX if you think it's a bad idea to special case PAM_RHOST named localhost. 
It's propably a bad idea on second thought, what about ip6-localhost then? You'd propably end up special casing a lot of different scenarios :/

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