Package: libpam-runtime Version: 1.0.1-7 Severity: normal When upgrading libpam-runtime the following prompt is offered:
<snip> Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) determine how authentication, authorization, and password changing are handled on the system, as well as allowing configuration of additional actions to take when starting user sessions. Some PAM module packages provide profiles that can be used to automatically adjust the behavior of all PAM-using applications on the system. Please indicate which of these behaviors you wish to enable. 1. Unix authentication 2. none of the above (Enter the items you want to select, separated by spaces.) PAM profiles to enable: </snip> There is no additional information or a recommendation on which profile should be selected in case you don't know -- I've been using Unix since 1985 and frankly I was foxed by the brevity of the message and the lack of additional information. WTF /is/ a PAM profile anyway? Considering that if you select (2) above your passwd command stops working (when you run passwd as root it just says updated successfully and returns to the prompt), in my opinion this is a serious lacuna and should be fixed. At the very least, the configure script should tell the user to select "Unix profiles" if they don't know which one to select, and point her to some documentation somewhere so she can make an informed decision if she wishes. Regards, -- Raju -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IN.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages libpam-runtime depends on: ii debconf 1.5.26 Debian configuration management sy libpam-runtime recommends no packages. libpam-runtime suggests no packages. -- debconf information: libpam-runtime/conflicts: libpam-runtime/override: false libpam-runtime/profiles: unix -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
