On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:13:40PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > > Martin Pool wrote: > >> At the least I would like to see Debian prompt for this at installation > >> much as it does for shadow passwords. Ideally it would be on by > >> default. > > I'm all for this idea. > Thanks. What needs to be done to have it adopted? > > Since I use static per-user in home tmp directories > > I have not looked at libpam-tmpdir though. I suppose that enabling it > > currently requires making some modifications to many of the pam.d files? > Yes, it does. This is a slight problem: it would be nice if there were a > way to say "this session module should apply to all services", but I don't > think there's any way to do that in PAM. It could be done in either > libpam or a Debian script that generates the files, but it's not strictly > needed. This should soon be possible, by making the relevant changes to /etc/pam.d/other and /etc/pam.d/common-session (not yet present in the Debian packages). The support for this layout in the PAM packages is well underway, but I don't think anyone's begun work yet on an "update-pam" interface for managing these two config files. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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