On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:01:03PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > tags 207816 pending > retitle 207816 [POST-SARGE] nullok comment in pam.d/login is confusing > thanks
> (shadow package bug triage) > I have commited (sid) the very small change which makes the comment about > nullok disappear. > The history of this bug is very strange. > >From a simple comment by Joey about a misleading comment in > /etc/pam.d/login, I see a long thread about deep security strategy, > none of it seeming to really pertain to shadow, but rather to PAM stuff. > So, the only fix I can do in shadow is fixing the comment. All > remaining stuff does not really pertain to this package, IMHO. Maybe > cloning the bug would be better and then reassign it to pam...I leave > this up to the people who participated in the discussion. Well, I considered the PAM part of this satisfactorily resolved when Sam added support for the nullok_secure option, which is now used by default on new installs. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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