reassign 528794 pam forcemerge 519927 528794 thanks On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:52:58PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Running pam-auth-update and manually selecting option "1. Unix > authentication" fixed the problem. > I vaguely remember seeing the pam-auth-update question during the last > upgrade, and I would have just hit enter.
> Now, this sytem is configured to use debconf's text frontend, and it > does not have libterm-readline-gnu-perl installed. (It is also > configured to display questions of medium priority or greater.) In that > configuration, debconf is crippled by not being able to pre-fill prompts > with defaults, and it will prompt as follows: > 1. You absolutely need this to avoid flaming death > 2. None of the above > Choose your antidote: _ > If the user presses Enter here, as most users *will*, nothing at all > is selected. Yes; has been previously reported, still on my todo list. :/ > To handle this case, please make pam-auth-update check for empty answers > to the question, and redisplay it if the user selects nothing, or at > least display a warning that the user is about to break their system > by not enabling any auth modules. > You may also want to reconsider asking a question that has only one > right answer. Ie, if the system only has pam_unix as an answer to the > question, *dont't ask about it*. If the system has pam_unix, and > kerberos available, do ask it. Good point, I'll look at fixing this at the same time. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
