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Diffstat (limited to 'debian')
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/NEWS | 31 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/README.debian | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/libpam-modules.links | 5 |
4 files changed, 23 insertions, 45 deletions
diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS index 327df1ac..cd9b078c 100644 --- a/debian/NEWS +++ b/debian/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@ +pam (1.1.0-3) unstable; urgency=low + + * pam_rhosts_auth module obsolete, symlink removed + + The pam_rhosts_auth module was dropped upstream prior to the lenny + release and a compatibility symlink provided in the libpam-modules + package, pointing at the new (and not 100% compatible) pam_rhosts + module. This symlink has now been dropped. If you still have + references to pam_rhosts_auth in your /etc/pam.d/* config files, you + will need to fix these, since they no longer work. + + For information on using pam_rhosts, see the pam_rhosts(8) manpage. + + -- Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:17:16 -0700 + pam (1.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low * pam_cracklib no longer checks for reuse of old passwords @@ -30,22 +45,6 @@ pam (1.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low -- Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:13:57 -0700 -pam (0.99.10.0-1) unstable; urgency=low - - * pam_rhosts_auth module obsolete - - The pam_rhosts_auth module has been dropped upstream in favor of the - more featureful and better-maintained pam_rhosts module. To ease the - transition to pam_rhosts, a compatibility symlink has been provided to - map pam_rhosts_auth to pam_rhosts on your system; however, pam_rhosts - doesn't support all of the same module options and the compatibility - symlink will be dropped in a future release. You should update any - configs to use pam_rhosts instead of pam_rhosts_auth as soon as possible. - - For information on using pam_rhosts, see the pam_rhosts(8) manpage. - - -- Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:01:22 -0700 - pam (0.99.7.1-5) unstable; urgency=low * Default Unix minimum password length has changed 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. - diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index b55f39a4..bc6c37de 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ pam (1.1.0-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * Drop superfluous options to dh_installchangelogs, dh_shlibdeps * Use debian/clean instead of rm -f'ing files in debian/rules clean target * Drop ./configure options that are no-ops + * Drop the /lib/security/pam_unix_*.so symlinks, which have been deprecated + now for 10 years and are not used at all if pam-auth-update is in play. + * Drop the pam_rhosts_auth.so symlink as well, and document in NEWS.Debian + that this is now obsolete. + * Drop stale content from README.debian: some of this should have been in + NEWS.Debian instead (but is so old it's not worth putting it there now), + some of it is obsolete by the change in package VCS. -- Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:23:47 -0700 diff --git a/debian/libpam-modules.links b/debian/libpam-modules.links deleted file mode 100644 index e87ff8f0..00000000 --- a/debian/libpam-modules.links +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ -/lib/security/pam_unix.so /lib/security/pam_unix_acct.so -/lib/security/pam_unix.so /lib/security/pam_unix_auth.so -/lib/security/pam_unix.so /lib/security/pam_unix_passwd.so -/lib/security/pam_unix.so /lib/security/pam_unix_session.so -/lib/security/pam_rhosts.so /lib/security/pam_rhosts_auth.so |