DJ Lucas wrote:
On 01/05/2018 03:26 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, 5 Jan 2018, Pierre Labastie wrote:
On 05/01/2018 17:43, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
The only reason for shadow in BLFS is to add PAM/cracklib. The term
'Required' may be a little inconsistent, but we need something stronger
than
'Recommended'.
Maybe remove any dep in shadow, since it'd be better to have it the
other way
around, see below.
The issue is that for jhalfs dependency tracking, what is needed is a
"rebuild trigger" (thank you Uwe) that jhalfs can parse programmatically.
I understand that.
Actually, Linux-PAM is pretty useless without recompiling shadow.
I'm OK with that, but I do add pam without rebuilding shadow in System
V and
it seems to not cause any problems.
PAM is just never used for the roles in that case. You are using shadow
for authentication and password policy, and session and environment are
handled strictly via scripts in /etc.
Not really. Things like poweroff, etc in xfce are enabled by polkit or
consolekit and they can use use pam. Other apps can use it without shadow:
samba, xscreensaver, mariadb, etc.
-- Bruce
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