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Re: Debian Sid. General questions.



Does anyone here use Debian Sid for professional work and programming? Are you happy with this? I just want to know your opinions about this experience.

On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 7:52 AM Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> wrote:

On 23/07/2024 09:23, Max Nikulin wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 00:25:27 +0500, 타토카 wrote:
>>> I have read on the official Debian website about sid (in russian
>>> version):
>>> "Maybe. There was one real case where PAM broke. PAM checks all
>>> users, so
>>> without PAM no one can login, even as a root. If you work in a
>>> precarious
>>> environment, you must be able to handle such situations.".
[...]
> It is just a warning that Sid is for experienced Debian users who have
> knowledge and time to recover their system in the case of failure.
>
> This particular one may originate from
> <http://wooledge.org/~greg/sidfaq.html#14>

Another variant was in the wiki even before adoption of that page:

<https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable?action="">>
2004-01-11 21:34:01
> One of the real funnies was when pam broke. Pam does all the user
> checking, so without pam no-one can log in. Not even root could log in.
> You must be able to handle such situation when you're running Unstable.




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