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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Steve Langasek
  • Date: 2011-02-15 23:21:41 UTC
  • mfrom: (1.2.3 upstream)
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20110215232141-yg5ttedznim6mbgm
Tags: 1.1.2-1
* New upstream release.
  - Add support for NSS groups to pam_group.  Closes: #589019,
    LP: #297408.
  - Support cross-building the package.  Thanks to Neil Williams
    <codehelp@debian.org> for the patch.  Closes: #284854.   
* debian/rules: pass getconf LFS_CFLAGS so that we get a 64-bit rlimit
  interface.  Closes: #579402.
* Drop patches conditional_module,_conditional_man and
  mkhomedir_linking.patch, which are included upstream.
* debian/patches/hurd_no_setfsuid: pam_env and pam_mail now also use
  setfsuid, so patch them to be likewise Hurd-safe.
* Update debian/source.lintian-overrides to clean up some spurious
  warnings.
* debian/libpam-modules.postinst: if any 'min=n' options are found in
  /etc/pam.d/common-password, convert them on upgrade to 'minlen=n' for
  compatibility with upstream.
* debian/NEWS: document the disappearance of 'min=n', in case users have
  encoded this option elsewhere outside of /etc/pam.d/common-password.
* debian/patches/007_modules_pam_unix: drop compatibility handling of
  'max=' no-op; use of this option will now log an error, as warned three
  years ago.
* Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.1.
* Add lintian overrides for a few more spurious warnings.
* debian/patches-applied/no_PATH_MAX_on_hurd: define PATH_MAX for
  compatibility when it's not already set.  Closes: #552043.
* debian/local/pam-auth-update: Don't try to pass embedded newlines to
  debconf; backslash-escape them instead and use CAPB escape.
* debian/local/pam-auth-update: sort additional module options before
  writing them out, so that we don't wind up with a different config file
  on every invocation.  Thanks to Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com> for the patch.
  Closes: #594123.
* debian/libpam-runtime.{postinst,templates}: since 1.1.2-1 is targeted
  for post-squeeze, we don't need to support upgrades from 1.0.1-6 to
  1.0.1-10 anymore.  Drop the debconf error note about having configured
  your system with a lack of authentication, so that translators don't
  spend any more time on it.
* Updated debconf translations:
  - Swedish, thanks to Martin Bagge <brother@bsnet.se> (closes: #575875)

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.\"    Manual: Linux-PAM Manual
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.TH "PAM_UNIX" "8" "06/29/2009" "Linux-PAM Manual" "Linux\-PAM Manual"
 
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.\" * (re)Define some macros
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Ignore errors reading shadow information for users in the account management module\&.
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\fBminlen=\fR\fB\fIn\fR\fR
 
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Set a minimum password length of
 
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characters\&. The max\&. for DES crypt based passwords are 8 characters\&.
 
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.SH "MODULE TYPES PROVIDED"