On 10/1/2000 Ernest Johanson wrote:
Does anyone know what happened to the secure-su package, and whether there
is a replacement? I couldn't find it in unstable, and the search function
on debian.org is down right now. Any help greatly appreciated. Please cc
me as I am getting the digest. Thanks in advance.
secure-su is obsolete because potato uses PAM (Pluggable
Authentication Modules), for whatever feature you need in su you only
need to find a PAM module for and add it to the /etc/pam.d/su file.
for example to enable the BSD style wheel group add:
auth required pam_wheel.so
to the beginning of /etc/pam.d/su
I don't know what else secure-su does but you should be able to
replicate all or almost all functionality with currently available
pam modules. if there is something you cannot do then a new pam
module is all that is required to implement it.
--
Ethan Benson
To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/
