[Bug 277667] Re: PAM configuration prone to mis-configuration

2009-01-27 Thread Steve Langasek
If there are specific configurations that are not currently supported by pam-auth-update that you believe should be, please file a bug against the relevant pam module package requesting that they be supported. But beyond that, yes, full configuration of the PAM stack *is* arcane magic, which is wh

[Bug 277667] Re: PAM configuration prone to mis-configuration

2009-01-27 Thread Phoenix
You have to see, that by default a Ubuntu authenticates against the local shadow database - but you might want to authenticate against ldap, samba, mysql, radius, whatever - you might even want to fallback and have special handling for User "0". To configure such a thing is involves complete arcane

[Bug 277667] Re: PAM configuration prone to mis-configuration

2008-10-26 Thread Steve Langasek
Thank you for taking the time to file this bug report and help to improve Ubuntu. Unfortunately I don't see that there's any actionable request here that applies to the pam package. The libpam-ldap package already integrates with pam-auth-update in Ubuntu 8.10; the libpam-ccreds package does not,

[Bug 277667] Re: PAM configuration prone to mis-configuration

2008-10-23 Thread IanW
** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: None => pam -- PAM configuration prone to mis-configuration https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277667 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@li