On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:20:46AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 11:37:20PM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 11:28:07PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > > What does the following mean:
> > >
> > > remove extraneous /etc/pam.d/screen as other works fine
> > >
> > > ?
> >
> > What he meant is "/etc/pam.d/other works fine".
> > Not basic English, basic PAM. He could, of course, spend a few more
> > keystrokes/bytes and make himself clearer.
> >
> > Didi
>
>
> Can you elaborate? I am sorry, I still don't get it. Clearly something
> has been removed, but what? In /etc/pam.d/other? Doesn't it somehow
> concerned with /etc/pam.d/screen? I don't have it anymore but before
> asking I verified that the previous and current version of that file is
> the same. Did I miss some bits?
> As of screen (3.9.15-1), /etc/pam.d/screen is the following:
If a service does not have a pam conf file, pam defaults to
/etc/pam.d/other. I understand what he said as:
"The default /etc/pam.d/other is good enough for screen, so we do not
need /etc/pam.d/screen".
Didi
>
> # $Id: screen.pam,v 1.1 2002/02/06 19:06:42 laz Exp $
> #
> # This is the PAM configuration file for screen(1)
> #
>
> auth required pam_unix.so
>
>
> >
> > >
> > > At first I thought that the maintainer is telling me that he no longer
> > > install /etc/pam.d/screen because it is not needed any more. However
> > > searching http://packages.debian.org for all files in the screen package
> > > yields etc/pam.d/screen as the first entry. In which case, what does the
> > > above means?
> > > In case you wonder, it is taken from the changelog entry for screen
> > > (3.9.15-1) found at /usr/share/doc/screen/changelog.Debian.gz.
>
> --
>
> Shaul Karl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] e t
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