We don't install PAM services anymore

Michael Palimaka kensington at gentoo.org
Fri Feb 24 23:07:28 UTC 2017


Hi Martin,

On 25/02/17 07:02, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just noticed that since we did the kde-workspace repo split we no
> longer install the PAM service files.
> 
> This used to be done by:
> https://cgit.kde.org/kde-workspace.git/tree/mkpamserv?h=KDE/4.11 and the
> pam service file is
> https://cgit.kde.org/kde-workspace.git/tree/kde.pamd?h=KDE/4.11
> 
> kcheckpass still references this, but the pam service file does not exist.
> 
> Given that this has been broken now for several years and nobody
> complained or noticed, I think we don't need to fix it.
> 
> Opinions?

I know several distributions install their own kde pam files, however I
don't know enough about pam to confirm if they're trying to do the same
thing as what kde-workspace used to install.

Kind regards,

Michael



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