On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 07:42:20PM -0400, Dave Reisner wrote: > Hey all, > > I'll be pushing a package into testing this weekend by the name of > 'pambase'. The name and basis for this package comes from Gentoo. I'd > like for this to live in [core] and become a dependency of PAM (as well > as absorb /etc/pam.d/other). > > pambase will provide a few common PAM configuration files which other > services can draw from (essentially implementing an ancient FS [1]). For > example, it shrinks a useful /etc/pam.d/login down to the following: > > auth required pam_securetty.so > auth include system-local-login > account include system-local-login > session include system-local-login > > In the short term, util-linux will be rebuilt to enable binaries from > its login-utils subdirectory: login, chfn, chsh, vigr, vipw, and newgrp. > They'll disappear from shadow, and I suspect that over time, more of > shadow's utils will re-appear in util-linux (with the benefit of a more > active and responsive maintainer/community). > > In the long term, other utilities are encouraged to adopt these common > PAM files. > > Until I actually release the package, I've left a source tarball on > gerolde, for interested parties to review [2]. > > Cheers, > Dave > > [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17188 > [2] http://dev.archlinux.org/~dreisner/pambase-20120602-1.src.tar.gz
Since there were no objections, I've rebuilt PAM and added pambase to testing.
