Bug#469078: libpam-runtime: Please enable pam_gnome_keyring.so in common-passwd

[Steve Langasek]

reassign 469078 libpam-gnome-keyring
retitle 469078 libpam-gnome-keyring: please implement https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PAMConfigFrameworkSpec
subscribe 469078
thanks

This bug was filed suggesting that the stock PAM config enable
pam_gnome_keyring by default.  This is not appropriate, because the module
is not /installed/ by default, and even though optional modules will not
cause the stack to fail when they're absent, they do cause errors to be
logged to /var/log/auth complaining about the bad config.  So the pam
package will not implement this request, no.

But the good news is that I'm currently in the process of testing a new PAM
configuration framework in Ubuntu Intrepid, which will be made available in
Debian for lenny+1 (not for lenny unfortunately, since this came together
too late to make it for the freeze and it's too intrusive to warrant a
freeze exception).  This framework makes it possible for packages providing
modules to register profiles declaring themselves to the system, including
auto-enabling if appropriate.

Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PAMConfigFrameworkSpec for details on
implementation; I intend this to be uploaded to sid with pam 1.0.1-4, which
will probably be after the lenny release.

If you have any questions, just ask.

Cheers,
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