[Pkg-auth-maintainers] Bug#990412: pam: PAM doesn't appear to be reading /lib/security

[Rowan Wookey]

Fair enough, I couldn't find any docs on the policy of /lib/security or
any news on it not being scanned in Bullseye, is there something about
that somewhere?

On 28/06/2021 14:48, Sam Hartman wrote:
> control: reassign -1 libpam-yubico
> control: severity -1 grave
> control: retitle -1 pam_yubico fails to install module in multiarch path
> control: found -1 2.23-1
> 
>>>>>> "Rowan" == Rowan Wookey <debianbugs at rwky.net> writes:
> 
>     Rowan> It appears that in Bullseye pam isn't checking /lib/security.
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>     Rowan> The libpam-yubico package installes a module in /lib/security
>     Rowan> which when configured without an absolute path pam errors
>     Rowan> with:
> 
> I think that's a bug in the other package.
> The issue is that /lib/security is not a multiarch path.
> And so I cannot have both an i386 and amd64 version of the module
> installed at the same time.
> By this point, we really ought to be supporting multiarch.
> 
> I'm happy to add breaks relationships in pam on broken modules that
> don't provide multiarch paths,
> but I'd consider this a grave bug on a module that only installs in
> /lib/security at this point.
>