On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 01:41:50PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >... > On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 10:07:52PM +0200, la...@debian.org wrote: > > I'm using NIS since 20+ years in a small network with about 60 computers. > > Since I manage all computers and the physical network can be seen as secure > > (I know it's not perfect secure) I do not need the additional crypto > > features of NIS+ or LDAP, which would be overkill. All my users use > > yppasswd on the NIS master for changing their password. I guess I > > still need pam support for this because I set things like this in > > pam.d/common-password: > > > password requisite pam_cracklib.so retry=3 > > difok=3 minlen=14 > > > Yes, I surely would miss the NIS support. > > If your users are using yppasswd on the NIS master for changing passwords, > then evidently you are not relying on support for NIS in PAM. (yppasswd > doesn't even link against libpam.)
Could you add this information to NEWS.Debian and/or the release notes? People administrating networks tend to be the people who actually read the release notes before planning an upgrade to a new release. Thanks Adrian