From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1486 invoked by uid 1002); 8 Jul 2003 02:10:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 20645 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2003 02:10:13 -0000 Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 22:08:03 -0400 From: Donny Davies To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030708020803.GB6230@breccia.escarpment> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH LOGIN at fep01-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com from [24.43.3.116] using ID at Mon, 7 Jul 2003 22:10:08 -0400 Subject: [gentoo-dev] Possibly trim sys-libs/pwdb from default profiles? X-Archives-Salt: 026273ba-6f30-4d57-8f2f-1f569a1ed77c X-Archives-Hash: dea0c171d82e32ea052f6016e2a9a35f Devs, According to what I've gathered, this library is going the way of the dodo bird. The only package in the portage tree that thinks it needs this library, is Linux-PAM (sys-libs/pam). The only pieces of PAM that require this library appear to be pam_radius.so and pam_pwdb.so. All of Gentoo's pam.d/config files are presently (or should be) using pam_unix.so, where in the past pam_pwdb.so might have been interchangable. The radius module sounds like a good fit for "optional build-time support" to me. Also, I wonder whether or not the pam_radius.so could be ported/patched to use whatever pam_unix.so uses, as it doesnt need this library and I think the two provide similar functionality/support anyways. Add to this, apparently RedHat now calls this package pwdb-compat, implying that its going to be soon legacy code. Some distributions might still be using pam_pwdb.so in their pam.d/configs but I don't think it's really common much anymore. So what's the point? Well, if we are into it, I suppose that sys-libs/pwdb could be made into a USE pwdb inside the sys-libs/pam package, thereby facilitating all of the default profiles to trim out sys-libs/pwdb that is installed by default on every Gentoo Linux system. I'm not totally bent on doing this immediately or anything. There might be some squeakies with *possibly* a very old Gentoo Linux system which *is* using pam_pwdb.so in it's pam.d/configs somewhere, which in theory could lead to them getting "locked out" by installing a sys-libs/pam without USE=pwdb. Thus I ask for your comments/concerns please; Azarah does this sound pretty much like an OK idea to pursue? Donny -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list