Re: The current (not existing) PAM policy

[Sebastian Rittau <srittau@jroger.in-berlin.de>]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:29:40AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:

> I've no problem with trying to achieve more consistency in some
> automatic way (maybe having some kind of include mechanism in PAM
> configuration files, or otherwise providing a more sophisticated
> fallback algorithm?), but I think simply saying that packages are not to
> install PAM configuration files but should leave it up to the
> administrator is a step backwards, not forwards.

True. But we should actually recommend against including a custom pam.d
file if this does not differ from the default file. An include mechanism
would be the best solution, though.

 - Sebastian