How to disable PAM per process?

nixscripter · Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 2:05 am Post subject: How to disable PAM per process?

I started a thread on this already, but it had a bunch of analysis in it. Here is a much simpler question.

I had a process running in a jail root. When I upgraded PAM, it broke, because it decided to start looking for PAM config files in the jail root.

How can I disable PAM for just this process, as I was advised to do in another thread?

Marq · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:39 pm Post subject:

Disable PAM checking in app configuration? Or create some fake pam conf files in chroot maybe?

nixscripter · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 5:06 am Post subject:

Trying a hundred combinations of fake files in the jail root is what failed.

And I don't know if it's the app, or it's start-stop-daemon that's actually the problem.

Marq · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:21 am Post subject:

So maybe try strace to find out what files deamon's trying to open?