Re: [DOCS] Link to PAM pages broken

2011-10-29 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 03:11, Thom Brown  wrote:
> On 29 October 2011 02:04, Thom Brown  wrote:
>> On 28 October 2011 23:29, Tom Lane  wrote:
>>> Robert Haas  writes:
> No response from kernel.org and the link still doesn't work, so we
> still have 2 broken links.
>>>
>>> Is it unreasonable to assume that kernel.org will come back before any
>>> doc change would have wide distribution?  AFAIK they're just cleaning up
>>> from an intrusion, they have not shut down permanently.
>>
>> I had considered that, but then I haven't seen any progress.  The site
>> has been back up for a while, but there doesn't seem to have been much
>> advancement in restoring the documentation in question.  I also
>> haven't had any feedback from kernel.org with regards to any plan to
>> restore these docs.  I guess this can be revisited in the new year to
>> see if the situation has changed.
>>
>> But as for the sun.com links, I don't see those coming back at all.
>> Those have either been relocated to a secret uncrawlable location, or
>> it's been deleted.  They did exist at least until June this year
>> (http://web.archive.org/web/20110604010813/http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/pam/)
>> but have since been purged for some unknown reason.
>
> Having just sent that message, I suddenly stumbled upon this which
> might be worth linking to for Solaris:
>
> http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19082-01/819-3321/pam-1/index.html

That doesn't look like an URL that's necessarily very stable...

Would it perhaps be a good idea to have the link in the docs just go
to a page on the wiki, and then point that one onwards? That way,
getting a change out there would be a lot quicker...


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Re: [DOCS] Link to PAM pages broken

2011-10-29 Thread Andrew G. Morgan
Alvaro,

Its been quite some years since I last followed the pam stuff. Since
the kernel.org breakin, pretty much everything there has been undone.
I can ask around about what might be salvagable, but Thorsten really
is the one to know where the latest copy of everything is.

Cheers

Andrew

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Alvaro Herrera  wrote:
>
> Andrew, Thorsten,
>
> What's the best place to link to the Linux PAM docs now that the
> kernel.org copy is gone?
>
> Thanks
>
> --- Begin forwarded message from Thom Brown ---
> From: Thom Brown 
> To: Pg Docs 
> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:52:36 -0300
> Subject: [DOCS] Link to PAM pages broken
>
> Hi all,
>
> I notice that the links to both the Linux PAM page and Solaris PAM
> page are broken in our documentation.  The bottom of the
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/auth-methods.html page
> points to http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ and
> http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/pam/.  The former is broken, the
> latter redirects to some generic Oracle page.
>
> I can't find a suitable candidates for substitution.  I found
> http://linux.die.net/man/8/pam.d and
> http://dsc.sun.com/solaris/articles/user_auth_solaris3.html but
> nothing to directly replace them.  Any ideas?
>
> --- End forwarded message ---
>
> --
> Álvaro Herrera 
>

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