[Bug 682662] Re: pam-auth-update ignores debconf settings

[Niklas Andersson]

This VERY ugly hack works on Ubuntu 18.04...

-- /usr/share/pam-config/mkhomedir -----
Default: yes
Priority: 0
Session-Type: Additional
Session:
	required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=0027
------------------------


apt-get install debconf-utils
echo libpam-runtime libpam-runtime/profiles multiselect mkhomedir | debconf-get-selections
rm /var/lib/pam/seen
rm /etc/pam.d/common-*
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive pam-auth-update --force

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Title:
  pam-auth-update ignores debconf settings

Status in dpkg package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in pam package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in pam package in Debian:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  pam-auth-update ignores the current debconf-settings. This makes it
  impossible to do automatically configure pam in noninteractive
  installations.

  Demonstration:

  ~ # debconf-get-selections | grep libpam-runtime
  libpam-runtime	libpam-runtime/override	boolean	true
  libpam-runtime	libpam-runtime/conflicts	error	
  libpam-runtime	libpam-runtime/no_profiles_chosen	error	
  libpam-runtime	libpam-runtime/profiles	multiselect	krb5, unix, ldap, tmpdir, gnome-keyring, consolekit
  libpam-runtime	libpam-runtime/you-had-no-auth	error	

  ~ # DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive pam-auth-update

  ~ # debconf-get-selections | grep libpam-runtime
  libpam-runtime	libpam-runtime/override	boolean	false
  libpam-runtime	libpam-runtime/conflicts	error	
  libpam-runtime	libpam-runtime/no_profiles_chosen	error	
  libpam-runtime	libpam-runtime/profiles	multiselect	krb5, unix, winbind, ldap
  libpam-runtime	libpam-runtime/you-had-no-auth	error

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