From cfee2ebe3192b620fa0b42edea334ccf1eb3aca8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve Langasek Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:58:51 -0700 Subject: drop references to pam_stack, which is long dead --- debian/local/Debian-PAM-MiniPolicy | 10 ---------- 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'debian/local') diff --git a/debian/local/Debian-PAM-MiniPolicy b/debian/local/Debian-PAM-MiniPolicy index 84b020ca..91722fb9 100644 --- a/debian/local/Debian-PAM-MiniPolicy +++ b/debian/local/Debian-PAM-MiniPolicy @@ -73,16 +73,6 @@ to reference the basename (eg. "pam_unix.so"). This will ensure that the program continues to work even if the module location changes, since libpam itself will resolve the location. -You should not use the pam_stack module in the pam config file. -It's not currently in Debian so it won't work. While I cannot stop -someone from packaging pam_stack for Debian, I will try to convince -them that it is not the direction we want. Pam_stack (among other -faults) uses different pam handles for each step in the process--the -handle used for session management is not the same as the handle used -for authentication. This breaks several modules. We have an alternate -solution for shared PAM configuration across modules, in the form of -the @include directive. - Currently libpam-modules is in the base setup, so its dependency is not needed (since the library depends on the correct version). However, if any -- cgit v1.2.3