[Mageia-dev] ANN: glibc-2.17 landing on cauldron...

[Guillaume Rousse]

Le 08/01/2013 11:34, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
> 'Twas brillig, and Guillaume Rousse at 08/01/13 10:04 did gyre and gimble:
>> Le 08/01/2013 10:55, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
>>>> Thanks for the link but I have UsePAM=no commented on
>>>> /et/ssh/sshd_config, I suppose that's the default sshd configuration, I
>>>> have never touched that file on that machine.
>>>
>>> The default is UsePAM=yes and has been since Mageia 2.
>> The term 'default' isn't quite appropriate here, as 'default' is usually
>> perceived as 'what is hardcoded in the binary if nothing is specified in
>>   the configuration file'. In our case, we don't change this, we just
>> tune the default configuration file.
>
> Bit of a grey area really as to what "default" could mean but I accept
> your point. We probably should patch the binary to be complete - I just
> took the same patch as fedora out of convenience.
I don't think that would be very wise. Changing hardcoded value is 
really evil, because it's invisible from end-user point of view.

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