Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Augeas pam.d argument checking

Joe McDonagh
2010-02-22T03:52:03Z

Nigel Kersten wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Joe McDonagh
> <joseph.e.mcdonagh@gmail.com> wrote:
>> seph wrote:
>>> Joe McDonagh <joseph.e.mcdonagh@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> I have not thought about using augeas because last time I tried
to
>>>> build it for our standard OS (Ubuntu 8.04) IIRC it needed a
newer
>>>> version of glibc.
>>> I didn''t have any trouble building the current ubuntu
augeas packages
>>> for 8.04. I followed the pretty normal dpkg build process for
>>> it. (apt-get source; apt-get build-dep; debuild) No glibc
weirdness.
>>>
>>> seph
>>>
>> That''s weird, maybe I ran into something else or just flat out
got
>> distracted/pulled in another direction.
>>
>> I was thinking it might be useful for this type to have both a
parsedfile
>> and augeas provider. What do you guys think?
>>
>> And yes I do usually use definitions for stuff like this, but I just
feel
>> like puppet should have some security types, and IIRC the solaris ones
don''t
>> differ much from the linux ones so it''s partly a unix-agnostic
type.
>>
>> Anybody else have more input on that last statement?
>
> add OS X to the Solaris/Linux PAM mix too? :)
>
> OS X 10.6 in particular makes PAM a lot more useful and authoritative.
>
>> --
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>
>
>
It''s good to hear that from you- I wasn''t completely sure they
had a PAM
implementation, cause for instance OpenBSD doesn''t (which is the BSD I
currently use the most these days).

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Joe McDonagh
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IRC: joe-mac on freenode
L''ennui est contre-révolutionnaire