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 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:01:22 -0700 pam (0.99.7.1-5) unstable; urgency=low * Default Unix minimum password length has changed Previous versions of pam_unix on Debian had a built-in minimum password length of 1 character, and a minimum password length configured in /etc/pam.d/common-password of 4 characters. This differed from the upstream default of 6 characters. This has been changed, so the default /etc/pam.d/common-password no longer overrides the compile-time default and the compile-time default has been raised to 6 characters. If you are using pam_unix but are not using the default /etc/pam.d/common-password file, it is recommended that you drop any min= options to pam_unix from your config unless you have stronger local password requirements that the upstream default. The password length 'max' option has also been deprecated in this version because it was never written to work as suggested in the documentation. If you are using pam_unix but are not using the default /etc/pam.d/common-password file, you should remove any old max= options to pam_unix from your config as this option will be considered an error in future versions of pam. -- Steve Langasek Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:27:11 -0700