Hi, I'm adding rhel-devel also to the mailing recipients to get RHEL developers feedback.
I'd also like to hear if there's any opinion on replacing pam_unix from Fedora and RHEL. On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 12:14 PM Björn 'besser82' Esser < besse...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently doing some experiments with replacing the - upstream > mostly unmaintained - pam_unix module (authentication with user passwd) > with something using less bloated and cleaner code. This topic is > currently also discussed with the upstream maintainer of pam_unix. > > Replacing parts of a software for the sake of less complexity usually > comes with a cut-down of features; in this particular case it would be > dropping support for NIS(+), which has already been abandoned by its > initial developer SUN / Oracle for about 10 years [1]. > > Before starting some more concrete plans, I'd like to get some feedback > from the Fedora community how they feel about removing NIS(+) support in > PAM. Is it even still actively used anywhere and/or by anyone in the > Fedora universe? > > Thanks, > Björn > > > [1] > > https://www.oracle.com/solaris/technologies/end-of-feature-notices-solaris11.html > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure > -- Iker Pedrosa Software Engineer, Identity Management team Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com> <https://www.redhat.com>
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