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

Nigel Kersten
2010-02-22T02:56:07Z

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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nigel