[Pkg-shadow-devel] CLOSE_SESSIONS check is a bit too invasive

Christian Perrier bubulle at debian.org
Thu Aug 25 14:48:31 UTC 2005


IO hope you don't mind I answer in public but my fellow co-maintainers
will be likely to have better answers than me.

Quoting Tomasz Kłoczko (kloczek at zie.pg.gda.pl):
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Christian Perrier wrote:
> [..]
> > As I intend to keep a mention of this obsolete value in our provided
> > login.defs file, could this be corrected?
> 
> BTW.
> Christian I see one dangerouse thing related to Debian patches. IIRC in 
> one of the Debian patch disabled in some tools use PAM support (by add on 
> top source file #undef USE_PAM) but code which handles login.defs isn't 
> know about this.
> 
> Simple some tools in Debian binaries uses PAM and probably by this in some 
> places where are used values from login.defs are used incorrect values.
> The same touches linking stage (not dangerouse) because IIRC Makefile.am 
> was not patched.
> 
> IMO best move will be drop patch which disables in some subset of tools
> using PAM.


Do you have any reference to the concerned patch(es) ?





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