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diff --git a/debian/README.debian b/debian/README.debian index 276cc55e..b5360492 100644 --- a/debian/README.debian +++ b/debian/README.debian @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -PAM for DEBIAN +PAM for Debian -------------- PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) provides system administrators with a @@ -11,26 +11,3 @@ Application Developers' Guide" and "The Linux-PAM Module Writers' Guide". The Debian default configuration is to emulate the old UNIX authentication. -The Debian PAM packages live at svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-pam/. The -current version is in the trunk directory; previous versions live in -the tags directory. - -Changes Since Debian 3.0 ------------------------- - -The pam_securetty module used to prompt for a password when it was -going to fail access. This Debian-specific patch defeats one of the -key uses of this module: to deny access to privileged accounts soon -enough in the PAM stack that the password is never requested and is -not compromised over insecure network links. If you want to ask for -the password use required not requisite in your PAM config. - -Previously, pam_rhosts allowed the .rhosts file to be a symlink. This -was a debian specific change that has been dropped because it is not -the upstream behavior nor is it the documented behavior of ruserok(3). - -Similarly, pam_listfile used to allow the user file to be a symlink. -This is no longer allowed because upstream seems to be against the -change. Please see discussion started by Sam Hartman on -pam-list@redhat.com during the May 2002 time frame. - |