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-rw-r--r--modules/pam_env/pam_env.8.xml4
-rw-r--r--modules/pam_exec/pam_exec.8.xml5
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 17336ac6..14022d93 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2010-10-19 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@thkukuk.de>
+
+ * modules/pam_env/pam_env.8.xml: Document side effects of
+ environment variables in the stack.
+ * modules/pam_exec/pam_exec.8.xml: Document that user can
+ have controll over the environment.
+
2010-10-07 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
* modules/pam_selinux/pam_selinux.c (verbose_message): Fix format
diff --git a/modules/pam_env/pam_env.8.xml b/modules/pam_env/pam_env.8.xml
index 536cb132..309643fd 100644
--- a/modules/pam_env/pam_env.8.xml
+++ b/modules/pam_env/pam_env.8.xml
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@
flag and turn it on or off by setting the <emphasis>readenv</emphasis>
flag to 1 or 0 respectively.
</para>
+ <para>
+ Since setting of PAM environment variables can have side effects
+ to other modules, this module should be the last one on the stack.
+ </para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="pam_env-options">
diff --git a/modules/pam_exec/pam_exec.8.xml b/modules/pam_exec/pam_exec.8.xml
index e58b95f1..0976f67c 100644
--- a/modules/pam_exec/pam_exec.8.xml
+++ b/modules/pam_exec/pam_exec.8.xml
@@ -67,6 +67,11 @@
<option>close_session</option>.
</para>
+ <para>
+ Commands called by pam_exec need to be aware of that the user
+ can have controll over the environment.
+ </para>
+
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="pam_exec-options">