Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the libpam-afs-session package.  I no longer use the
package and it doesn't seem likely that I will again soon, so I'm no
longer a good maintainer for it.

The package description is:
 AFS is a distributed network file system.  It uses in-kernel credentials
 (AFS tokens) obtained from Kerberos tickets for authentication and access
 control, and controls access to those credentials via PAGs (process
 authentication groups).  This module provides a PAM session
 implementation that puts new logins in separate PAGs and optionally runs
 an external program (usually aklog) to obtain tokens from Kerberos
 tickets.  It is designed to work with a Kerberos PAM module that obtains
 the initial Kerberos tickets.

Note that the package is also orphaned upstream (I was also the upstream
maintainer).  It's very stable and hasn't needed significant changes in
some years, but it does have some poor interactions with systemd-managed
user sessions with modern desktop environments because the environment
variable specifying the location of the Kerberos ticket cache is not exposed
to the PAM session and thus this PAM module does not work correctly.

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