Hi,

I've asked internally for RHEL developers feedback about this topic and
I'll post a summary of it in this email.

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 12:39 PM Iker Pedrosa <ipedr...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm adding rhel-devel also to the mailing recipients to get RHEL
> developers feedback.
>
> I'd also like to hear if there's any opinion on replacing pam_unix from
> Fedora and RHEL.
>
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 12:14 PM Björn 'besser82' Esser <
> besse...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm currently doing some experiments with replacing the - upstream
>> mostly unmaintained - pam_unix module (authentication with user passwd)
>> with something using less bloated and cleaner code.  This topic is
>> currently also discussed with the upstream maintainer of pam_unix.
>>
>> Replacing parts of a software for the sake of less complexity usually
>> comes with a cut-down of features; in this particular case it would be
>> dropping support for NIS(+), which has already been abandoned by its
>> initial developer SUN / Oracle for about 10 years [1].
>>
>> Before starting some more concrete plans, I'd like to get some feedback
>> from the Fedora community how they feel about removing NIS(+) support in
>> PAM.  Is it even still actively used anywhere and/or by anyone in the
>> Fedora universe?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Björn
>>
>>
>> [1]
>>
>> https://www.oracle.com/solaris/technologies/end-of-feature-notices-solaris11.html
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