On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 22:41 -0500, Will Dyson wrote: > On 2/12/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Yes, absolutely, it is ridiculous. > > > > In the upcoming Ubuntu Dapper release this will Just Work. No patching > > the kernel or PAM or cryptic CLI utilities. > > Really? That is good news. > > But as far as I can see, ubuntu bug 17348 has seen no action aside > from you, myself and Dana Olson each providing different versions of > the bleeding trivial patch to pam that would enable it. > > https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/pam/+bug/17348 > > I realize there is still 2 months left before dapper releases, but the > feature freeze is right around the corner. > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperReleaseSchedule > > I honestly have no idea why all the distros are dragging their feet on this. Although that bug report might not reflect it, the Ubuntu developers are working on it and have told me that this will be fixed in Dapper. It will be in the next glibc update, and PAM will probably be fixed soon after (since the glibc patch makes the PAM patch smaller and less of a hack). Lee
