Re: libpam-pwdb: optional ???

[Ben Collins]

On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 11:16:50PM +0100, Alexander N. Benner wrote:
 Hi

 I couldn't log in anymore today after an upgrade to the current potato
 snapshot.

 After triing for a while I found out that login tried to use pam_pwdb which
 was not installed.

 There seems to be no depends on it, it is also in section optional.

 Is this intended for a package require to read /etc/passwd upon login?

There is no login program in potato (other than pam-apps in potato only
that does not use pam_pwdb) that uses pam_pwdb. So if you are using it
then it was a custom setup and not something a depends could handle.
pam_pwdb is not required to access /etc/passwd (the pam_unix_* modules
handle it quite well).

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libpam-pwdb: optional ???

[Alexander N. Benner]

Hi

I couldn't log in anymore today after an upgrade to the current potato
snapshot.

After triing for a while I found out that login tried to use pam_pwdb which
was not installed.

There seems to be no depends on it, it is also in section optional.

Is this intended for a package require to read /etc/passwd upon login?


greetings

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