[Bug 1786821] Re: pam.7.gz is a symlink to PAM.7.gz . This does not work for caseinsensitive filesystems e.g. Windows Subsystem for Linux

[Balint Reczey]

Hi Marcus,

Could you please tell what does not work?

"man 7 pam" and "man 7 PAM" both open the pam(7) manual.
If libpam0g-dev is installed "man pam" opens pam(3) "man PAM" opens pam(7).

Do I miss something?

(Tested with the Ubuntu 18.04 app)

Also note that case-sensitivity is available: 
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/02/28/per-directory-case-sensitivity-and-wsl/


** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  pam.7.gz is a symlink to PAM.7.gz . This does not work for
  caseinsensitive filesystems e.g. Windows Subsystem for Linux

Status in pam package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  The package libpam-runtime contains a symlink pam.7.gz -> PAM.7.gz in
  ./usr/share/man/man7 and this doesn't work in Windows Subsystem for
  Linux since Windows has a caseinsensitive filesystem.

  On ubuntu 18.04 this PAM.7.gz exists too. I know it's not a linux
  centric issue. But why libpam-runtime is using Uppercase and symlinks
  anyway? Other packgages in man7 just use lowercase, and this is what
  I'm expecting.

  Hopefully you can fix it.

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