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Re: *PAM RANT* (Was: Re: Should md5 password settings be preserved across upgrades?)



Sounds like a job for cfengine!

I'd never paid much attention to it before using FAI but it's seriously cool
stuff for managing conf files.

On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 05:27:18PM +1000, LapTop006 wrote:
> YES!
> I manage around 30 debian systems, all are installed by first installing
> the image that we use for clients, then we have to modify them to talk
> to our LDAP server, unfortunatly because debian won't put in default pam
> files for other packages to include (There have been several rants about
> this on d-d, correct package would be libpam-modules) we have to modify
> EVERY PAM FILE BY HAND (Becuase several packages have strange orderings
> of pam modules that can cause breakage in the situation where you first
> auth against LDAP but fall back to files). This would be a simple change
> to pam-modules and ONE conffile update to all packages that use pam that
> would make these kind of situations MUCH easier to deal with.



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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> "All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for enough good
> men to do nothing." - Edmond Burke
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> governed by people worse than themselves." - Plato

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