Re: [gentoo-dev] pam: thoughts on modernizing pam_limits configuration that Gentoo ships with

[Piotr Karbowski <slashbeast@gentoo.org>]

Hi,

On 11/12/2022 13.46, Sam James wrote:
> You should still file a bug for two reasons:
> 1. Paper trail
> 2. sys-auth/pambase has another maintainer who*is*  active :)
> 
> As for the question in your post, I'll have a think. Thanks!

I am not against creating a bug, I do see it however as inefficient in 
this very case.

I do know however if I were to create bug and assign it to current 
single pam maintainer, it would hardly get noticed by other people, 
greatly reducing the feedback. Changing defaults will affect vast 
majority of Gentoo users, so gentoo-dev ml was the place I choosen.

I didn't realized that you are maintainer of pambase, though the 
/etc/security/limits.conf belongs to sys-libs/pam that has only zlogene.

I did mail zlogene regarding another package recently and got no 
response, thus pam itself seems maintainer-needed to me, and because of 
it a candidate for me to join as another maintainer and do the changes. 
I do not think it would make much sense for me to then create bug for 
myself to make this change of defaults, paper trail would be the commit 
subject and message itself, or perhaps I did not understood of what you 
meant here by paper trail, would appreciate clarification.

It would be great if you were interested in joining pam itself, and I am 
interested to also joining pambase, since those are so co-dependent it 
does not make sense to have split maintainers there.

-- Piotr.