[gentoo-dev] Are users forced to use PAM?

2014-10-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
In bug 524074 (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524074), Joshua Kinard mentioned that Gentoo cannot support systems where PAM isn't installed. I'd like to know whether this is true or not, especially since no part of the system seems to actually require it. It is there if you need it. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Are users forced to use PAM?

2014-10-05 Thread Philip Webb
141005 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: In bug 524074 (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524074), Joshua Kinard mentioned that Gentoo cannot support systems where PAM isn't installed. I'd like to know whether this is true or not, especially since no part of the system seems to actually require

Re: [gentoo-dev] Are users forced to use PAM?

2014-10-05 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Please get upstream to apply the patch and release a new sudo version. Simple as this: -pam is not by default tested and you keep the pieces if it breaks. If you can get upstream to just apply that patch, you solve your problem. Insulting developers as it's happening on that bug will bring you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Are users forced to use PAM?

2014-10-05 Thread Matthias Maier
Am 05. Oct 2014, 15:20 schrieb Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu: Simple as this: -pam is not by default tested and you keep the pieces if it breaks. Upstream bug is at [1]. According to comment 1 also upstream does not seem to test non-pam use cases all that often. I have the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Are users forced to use PAM?

2014-10-05 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Thanks for looking it up Matthias. Sounds like me or someone else will get to it asap (not on my laptop right now to commit). On Oct 5, 2014 4:45 PM, Matthias Maier tamiko+gen...@kyomu.43-1.org wrote: Am 05. Oct 2014, 15:20 schrieb Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu : Simple as this:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Are users forced to use PAM?

2014-10-05 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 14:20:49 +0100 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: Insulting developers as it's happening on that bug will bring you nowhere. Sadly, the person in question has been on my watch list for a very long time. jer