Hi folks, So with wheezy out, libaudit is now multiarch-capable, which means for jessie I would like to enable the tty_audit PAM module. This brings libaudit into the transitively essential set of libraries, so should be discussed here. (I forgot to raise this thread before actually uploading this change to unstable; sorry about that. Since I believe this change will be fairly uncontroversial, I'll leave it as-is in the archive pending the outcome of this discussion, unless someone is aware of issues that it's causing.)
libaudit provides core security functionality, related, as the name implies, to audit logs for sessions. It enables auditd, but does not depend on it; auditd itself remains optional, and libaudit is a no-op with reasonably low overhead without it. But support for it must be enabled in the core packages in order for auditd to do its job usefully. libaudit1 has no new external dependencies (just libaudit-common), and is a tiny waif of a library (~200k). Are there any objections to pulling libaudit into the base set? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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