Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: sys-pam category

[Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 19:34 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Sunday 05 June 2005 17:37, Ned Ludd wrote:
> > I think they are fine where they are. Moving stuff around is a waste of
> > time. Makes things more complex. Makes more work on everybody.
> Sorry but I don't agree with that, at least for the particular case of pam.
> The way it's now, makes my work hardware than it could be having them in 
> order. If I want to look for pam modules which needs to be fixed, I need to 
> go through a list with eix looking for them. Also two similar modules like 
> pam_ssh and pam_ssh_agent are respectively in app-crypt and sys-libs.
> And sorry, I don't think that everytime I need to find out what I need to 
> change or test I need to do some strange query like "eix -r [^s]\?pam -o 
> ^pam".

14 files matching the pam prefix and 18 thing matching description.

app-admin/pam_dotfile (Mail related)
 pam module to allow password-storing in $HOME/dotfiles

app-crypt/pam_krb5 (Should of been put in sys-libs)
 Pam module for MIT Kerberos V

app-vim/pam-syntax (Seems logical)
 vim plugin: PAM configuration syntax highlighting

dev-perl/Authen-PAM (Seems logical)
 Interface to PAM library

kde-base/kcheckpass (Seems logical)
 KDE pam client that allows you to auth as a specified user without
 actually doing anything as that user.

kde-base/kdebase-pam (Seems logical)
 pam.d files used by several KDE components.

kde-base/secpolicy (Not sure)
 KDE: Display PAM security policies

net-libs/pam_ldap (Should of been sys-libs)
 PAM LDAP Module

net-mail/checkpassword-pam (Seems logical)
 checkpassword-compatible authentication program w/pam support

net-mail/poppassd_ceti (Seems logical)
 Password change daemon with PAM support

net-misc/pam_smb (Should of been sys-libs)
 The PAM SMB module, which allows authentication against an NT server.

net-www/mod_auth_pam (Seems logical)
 PAM authentication module for Apache

sys-apps/pam-login (Seems logical not a lib but a program)
 Based on the sources from util-linux, with added pam and shadow
features

sys-libs/pam_mysql (Seems logical)
 pam_mysql is a module for pam to authenticate users with mysql

sys-libs/pam_passwdqc (Seems logical)
 Password strength checking for PAM aware password changing programs

sys-libs/pam_pwdfile (Seems logical)
 PAM module for authenticating against passwd-like files.

sys-libs/pam_ssh_agent (Seems logical)
 PAM module that spawns a ssh-agent and adds identities using the
 password supplied at login

sys-libs/pam_usb (Seems logical)
 A PAM module that enables authentication using an USB-Storage device
 (such as an USB Pen) through DSA private/public keys.

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If you really feel you must invalidate everybody else binary trees 
and adding a workload on others for your gain then go for it.
But adding another category for what are clearly mostly system 
libraries does not make sense me in this case. 
So sorry I object to new category creation for PAM.

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Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>
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