Hi, I've asked internally for RHEL developers feedback about this topic and I'll post a summary of it in this email.
On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 12:39 PM Iker Pedrosa <ipedr...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm adding rhel-devel also to the mailing recipients to get RHEL > developers feedback. > > I'd also like to hear if there's any opinion on replacing pam_unix from > Fedora and RHEL. > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 12:14 PM Björn 'besser82' Esser < > besse...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm currently doing some experiments with replacing the - upstream >> mostly unmaintained - pam_unix module (authentication with user passwd) >> with something using less bloated and cleaner code. This topic is >> currently also discussed with the upstream maintainer of pam_unix. >> >> Replacing parts of a software for the sake of less complexity usually >> comes with a cut-down of features; in this particular case it would be >> dropping support for NIS(+), which has already been abandoned by its >> initial developer SUN / Oracle for about 10 years [1]. >> >> Before starting some more concrete plans, I'd like to get some feedback >> from the Fedora community how they feel about removing NIS(+) support in >> PAM. Is it even still actively used anywhere and/or by anyone in the >> Fedora universe? >> >> Thanks, >> Björn >> >> >> [1] >> >> https://www.oracle.com/solaris/technologies/end-of-feature-notices-solaris11.html >> _______________________________________________ >> devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >> Fedora Code of Conduct: >> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ >> List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> List Archives: >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: >> https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure >> > > > -- > > Iker Pedrosa > > Software Engineer, Identity Management team > > Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com> > <https://www.redhat.com> > -- Iker Pedrosa Software Engineer, Identity Management team Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com> <https://www.redhat.com>
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