Hi. I'm usually slow at updating my gentoo machine, and I think I was behind by about a month from last update. Anyways, I noticed that the recent pambase-20101024 has pam_permit optional on for auth, account and password in /etc/pam.d/system-auth.
That didn't sound real neat, so Iooked it up in the manual and it says "very dangerous, use with extreme caution." Following their advice, I look up pam_permit and try to understand why anyone would put it on by default, but the google hits I get on pam_permit are very terse. What does pam_permit do when set to optional for auth, account, password and session? Clearly I don't want my pam to start letting in everybody, but I doubt the gentoo team would either, so maybe I'm just misunderstanding. In the meantime I didn't allow it in. -- This email is: [ ] actionable [ ] fyi [x] social Response needed: [ ] yes [x] up to you [ ] no Time-sensitive: [ ] immediate [ ] soon [x] none
