Debian Bug report logs - #370346
Make etc/security/group.conf automatically configurable

Package: pam; Maintainer for pam is Sam Hartman <[email protected]>;

Reported by: Luk Claes <[email protected]>

Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 18:34:14 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Blocking fix for 311188: debian-edu-config: Messes "programmatically" with conffiles of other packages

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[Steve Langasek]
> Is this still needed, or is it superseded by consolekit yet?

As far as I know, it is still needed for access to devices like sound
and video input (and possibly also floppy, cdrom for burning, etc).  I
might be mistaken, though.

If it is needed, pam_group need some setting in
/usr/share/pam-configs/ as well to make it possible to enable it in
/etc/pam.d/ too.

> Given that editing of other packages' config files is still a policy
> violation, whether or not they're conffiles, this isn't going to be
> easy to solve, otherwise - short of not shipping a default
> group.conf at all.

Either that or changing the default to match our needs.  I believe our
needs actually match those of any larger installation using Debian,
where adding every user to the groups granting access to local devices
is impossible.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen




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