pkgsrc/security/PAM/DESCR

PAM provides Pluggable Authentication Modules.  It is a flexible,
dynamically configurable mechanism for authenticating users.

PAM provides a way to develop programs that are independent of
authentication scheme.  These programs need "authentication modules" to be
attached to them at run-time in order to work.  Which authentication module
is to be attached is dependent upon the local system setup and is at the
discretion of the local system administrator.

This package includes the dynamic and static libpam libraries,
developer files, and related programmer's man pages documenting
the functions.  Over 25 PAM modules are included. This is Linux-PAM;
it works with Solaris, NetBSD, AIX, and other operating systems.
Some improvements from Jeremy C. Reed via PR 20892: - improved DESCRiption (and spelling fixed) - more MASTER_SITES - improved COMMENT - variable for enabling --with-libcrack - install limits.conf if under Linux - make sure it doesn't have an interactive configuration 2003-05-22 16:36:06 +02:00			`PAM provides Pluggable Authentication Modules. It is a flexible,`
			`dynamically configurable mechanism for authenticating users.`

Update security/PAM to 0.75. Note that this release contains backwardly incompatible changes to libpam.so; prior versions were buggy so upgrading is highly recommended. Pkgsrc changes from version 0.72 include: * Honor ${PKG_SYSCONFDIR}: the config files are now found in /etc/pam.conf and /etc/pam/.conf, or in the appropriate ${PKG_SYSCONFBASE} directory. Convert to use the general INSTALL/DEINSTALL scripts. Changes from version 0.72 include: * bug fixes to almost every PAM module * pam_pwdb replaced with pam_unix * fixed a small security hole (more of a user confusion issue) with the unix and pwdb password helper binaries. * improved handling of the setcred/close_session and update chauthtok stack. Warning This is a backwardly incompatible change, but 'more sane' than before. (Bug 129775 - agmorgan) * added support for '/' symbols in pam_time and pam_group config files (support for modern terminal devices). Fixed infinite loop problem with '\\[^\n]' in these files. * added accessconf=<filename> feature to pam_access 2002-01-29 18:10:10 +01:00			`PAM provides a way to develop programs that are independent of`
Initial import of PAM-0.72, a pluggable authentication module mechanism 2000-10-21 20:41:54 +02:00			`authentication scheme. These programs need "authentication modules" to be`
Some improvements from Jeremy C. Reed via PR 20892: - improved DESCRiption (and spelling fixed) - more MASTER_SITES - improved COMMENT - variable for enabling --with-libcrack - install limits.conf if under Linux - make sure it doesn't have an interactive configuration 2003-05-22 16:36:06 +02:00			`attached to them at run-time in order to work. Which authentication module`
			`is to be attached is dependent upon the local system setup and is at the`
Initial import of PAM-0.72, a pluggable authentication module mechanism 2000-10-21 20:41:54 +02:00			`discretion of the local system administrator.`
Some improvements from Jeremy C. Reed via PR 20892: - improved DESCRiption (and spelling fixed) - more MASTER_SITES - improved COMMENT - variable for enabling --with-libcrack - install limits.conf if under Linux - make sure it doesn't have an interactive configuration 2003-05-22 16:36:06 +02:00
			`This package includes the dynamic and static libpam libraries,`
			`developer files, and related programmer's man pages documenting`
			`the functions. Over 25 PAM modules are included. This is Linux-PAM;`
			`it works with Solaris, NetBSD, AIX, and other operating systems.`