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From: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Are users forced to use PAM?
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 13:20:57
Message-Id: CAHcsgXStY=1kqg52jxAzX8DAkcW2PVBgaKy6fPcF+fxTUZZc4Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Are users forced to use PAM? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 Please get upstream to apply the patch and release a new sudo version.
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3 Simple as this: -pam is not by default tested and you keep the pieces if it
4 breaks. If you can get upstream to just apply that patch, you solve your
5 problem. Insulting developers as it's happening on that bug will bring you
6 nowhere.
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8 Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
9 flameeyes@×××××××××.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
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11 On 5 October 2014 11:18, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:
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13 > In bug 524074 (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524074), Joshua
14 > Kinard mentioned that Gentoo cannot support systems where PAM isn't
15 > installed. I'd like to know whether this is true or not, especially since
16 > no part of the system seems to actually require it. It is there if you need
17 > it. I don't have a use for it, personally.
18 >
19 > (The issue at hand is that sudo links against -lshadow, which should not
20 > happen and therefore that link command removed from the build.)
21 >
22 >
23 >

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Are users forced to use PAM? Matthias Maier <tamiko+GENTOO@××××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Are users forced to use PAM? Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
[gentoo-dev] Re: Are users forced to use PAM? Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>