On 09/02/19 12:50 am, David C. Rankin wrote:
All,
With the latest change to pambase, e.g.
if you have services that rely on pam authentication, such as dovecot, etc.., you will find that your applications an no longer authenticate using pam until you install a specific pam service in /etc/pam.d for that application,
Although this change is probably not going to affect me but may be this should have been done in two releases. First release where pam_unix.so lines are kept as it is but with new pam_warn.so lines too. This will start throwing warning in log but services will continue to work. Hence alerting the administrator instead of breaking service all-of-sudden. And then in some future release switch pam_unix.so to pam_deny.so. I would also suggest to have a message displayed by pacman after upgrade. Regards, Amish.