[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#207816: Bug fix pending for #207816

[Steve Langasek]

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On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:01:03PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> tags 207816 pending
> retitle 207816 [POST-SARGE] nullok comment in pam.d/login is confusing
> thanks

> (shadow package bug triage)

> I have commited (sid) the very small change which makes the comment about
> nullok disappear.

> The history of this bug is very strange.

> >From a simple comment by Joey about a misleading comment in
> /etc/pam.d/login, I see a long thread about deep security strategy,
> none of it seeming to really pertain to shadow, but rather to PAM stuff.

> So, the only fix I can do in shadow is fixing the comment. All
> remaining stuff does not really pertain to this package, IMHO. Maybe
> cloning the bug would be better and then reassign it to pam...I leave
> this up to the people who participated in the discussion.

Well, I considered the PAM part of this satisfactorily resolved when Sam
added support for the nullok_secure option, which is now used by default on
new installs.

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Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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