Hi,

I'm adding rhel-devel also to the mailing recipients to get RHEL developers feedback.

I'd also like to hear if there's any opinion on replacing pam_unix from Fedora and RHEL.

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 12:14 PM Björn 'besser82' Esser <besser82@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Hello,

I'm currently doing some experiments with replacing the - upstream
mostly unmaintained - pam_unix module (authentication with user passwd)
with something using less bloated and cleaner code.  This topic is
currently also discussed with the upstream maintainer of pam_unix.

Replacing parts of a software for the sake of less complexity usually
comes with a cut-down of features; in this particular case it would be
dropping support for NIS(+), which has already been abandoned by its
initial developer SUN / Oracle for about 10 years [1].

Before starting some more concrete plans, I'd like to get some feedback
from the Fedora community how they feel about removing NIS(+) support in
PAM.  Is it even still actively used anywhere and/or by anyone in the
Fedora universe?

Thanks,
Björn


[1]
https://www.oracle.com/solaris/technologies/end-of-feature-notices-solaris11.html
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