2007/3/13, Carlo Calica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 3/13/07, Lucas C. Villa Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/13/07, Jonatan Liljedahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Many distro's are using PAM, such that PAM will be called by udev to > > > adjust the permissions of new device nodes. For example to let console > > > users have read/write access to certain stuff... > > > I guess this is the path we should go too, if not now then later? > > > > It's just a matter of creating a fresh (and tested!) recipe for PAM > > and identifying all packages that should be need to be recompiled. So > > far, 207 packages are ready for 014. I wouldn't care to recompile one > > package or another, but I'm definitely not going to check this list, > > package by package, calling 'configure --help' and so on. This move > > needs some more help from PAM users so that all packages that could > > benefit from it are identified. > > > > Introducing PAM doesn't fit in a stabilizing even release. Wait until > 015. Last I looked at PAM only a few (like Shadow), were absolutely > required for a switch. Others were purely optional. For instance > apache doesn't need pam, even in a pam system, to run. Additional > features are available if you include it. Of course a piecemeal move > isn't ideal but nothing should break too badly. > >From my own experiances with PAM and Gobolinux I can say that the transitions is rather simple. As Carlo said, only shadow is really _needed_. Besides shadow I only have wdm and xlockmore compiled with PAM support, all other authentications go the "normal" way.
I really can see a move towards PAM for 015, as it has been on my wishlist since 012. :) -- /Jonas _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
