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

Tue Jan 8 14:49:58 CET 2013

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.
+
+-- 
+BOFH excuse #413:
+
+Cow-tippers tipped a cow onto the server.
+