extra PAM modules

[John Richard Moser]

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Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * John Richard Moser 
> 
> | I am looking into a couple of extra PAM modules.  Mainly I am
> | considering libpam-cracklib (in main) and libpam-tmpdir.  These seem
> | mainly appropriate for default installs; although libpam-cracklib may
> | raise some eyebrows when passwords such as "fluffy" don't go in.
> | 
> | I have not tested libpam-tmpdir extensively yet in dapper but will be
> | getting on that ASAP.  As for libpam-cracklib, I have a potential
> | install-time solution:
> 
> libpam-tmpdir currently has some problems with gdm because gdm
> installs a SIGCHLD handler which in some cases makes the pam handler
> for libpam-tmpdir never return.  I'm going to implement a workaround
> in libpam-tmpdir «soon», but I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
> It's a fairly trivial fix, IIRC.
> 

Wow.  Ouches?  :)

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