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Announce: PAM development RPMs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cristian Gafton)
Sun Nov 24 05:35:16 1996
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 12:33:07 +0200 (EET)
From: Cristian Gafton <gafton@sorosis.ro>
To: PAM List <pam-list@redhat.com>, RedHat List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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Hello all,
I would like to announce for those hungry for features and brave enough
to take an adventure that I have built a set of PAM RPMs from the
development tree of the PAM project.
The RPMs are found at
ftp://sysadm.sorosis.ro/pub/pam
and are available for RedHat 4.0/Intel only, but the src RPMs are
provided in case you want to try yourself to build them.
What is found there:
libpwdb-0.53-1.i386.rpm, libpwdb-0.53-1.src.rpm
This is the new password database library used by few PAm modules.
It provides support for standard UNIX passwords, shadow, shadow with MD5,
a little NIS and RADIUS authetication. This is a required package to
before installing ...
pam-0.54-1.i386.rpm, pam-0.54-1.src.rpm
The heart and soul :-). Please note that I am trying to get the
development version of the PAM tested by more people. In this respect,
this RPM will have a conflict on /etc/pam.conf with the pamconfig RPM
shipped by RedHat. I decided to include a complete pam.conf into this
package with the new modules enabled. You will have to install with
--force. For more information, read the docs.
Over the PAM RPM shipped by RedHat, this new package comes with:
- pam_limits module - you can impose resource limits for each
user/group of users. For those using the limits feature from my older
shadow package, please note that the config file format (now
/etc/security/limits.conf) is changed. For information, read docs.
- pam_wheel group - enforcing wheel group priviledges and more -
read the docs.
- pam_unix_* modules are replaced with a new one, unique by name and
features - pam_pwdb. It supports unix, shadow (blah, nothing new), MD5
(wow!) and RADIUS authetication. It is reasonable documented.
- pam_cracklib - you can continue to use cracklib to enforce users
choose good passwords. This module was a part of pam_unix_* modules, now
it is a separate module. An example of stacking it over the other modules
is given in the pam.conf supplied with this RPM. You might check the docs
if you need more information...
- a lot of small changes and improvements which are found in the docs...
I welcome any comments from people testing this out. Please understand
that this is development software and this RPM is supported only by my
good will :-), please complain to me if it is not working. Although this
RPM does not contain code to erase your whole hard drive, you know the
thing with 'take it as is, etc, etc...', don't you ? :-)
Oh, something new : did I mention that these RPMs contain DOCUMENTATION ?
If not, well, there is some documentation out there to be read before
shooting at me.
Please test it out and let me know how it behaves for you,
Best regards,
Cristian Gafton
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