Re: libc6 problems (maybe)?
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 12:27:56PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote:
> > > It's for OpenSSH which I am working on (and I think just finished)
> > > packaging. Unfortunately, it uses both lipwdb and pam. Could you explain
> > > why this is evil and maybe point me at some reading that would help me port
> > > it away from libpwdb?
> >
> > a) I would hope that they made the pwdb support configurable at build time
> > with some sort of --disable-pwdb option.
>
> heh... I wrote the autoconf support, so that's up to me to do. :)
>
> I'll be working on it, though, for sure.
>
> [excellent explanation snipped]
>
> Thanks for the knowledgable explanation. What I gleaned from that is that
> we want better than a --disable-pwdb, we want no pwdb at all, correct?
Well having it as an option is ok in general since I'm sure the poor
RedHat users who's systems are based on pwdb will want it :)
But for a Debian package, it's not something we want.
Ben
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