On Sat, 16 Sept 2023 at 00:46, Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 07:44:45PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > In fact, Marco yesterday told me the only blocker to boot a minimal > > Debian image with only /usr is PAM, and that's exclusively because of > > downstream-specific changes - upstream not only has supported the > > hermetic-usr config model for years, but the upstream maintainer is > > one of the main drivers of the generic effort at SUSE. > > That's not accurate at all. Debian carries no patches to the code for > handling paths to pam config files. > > pam-auth-update is also not a "downstream change" to pam, it's integration > with the OS that has been done in /etc.
Perhaps 'modifications' was the wrong term, I meant the whole system that handles the configuration. Correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK that is all Debian-specific. Arch, Fedora and Suse do not have this issue.
