Archive for the 'Google Summer of Code' Category

Our two tools update-pam and update-nsswitch in charge of modifying the conffiles, where finished last month. And have been testing it in their future packages, libpam-runtime for update-pam and base-files for update-nsswitch. But  we shouldn’t submit them until Summer of code finishes and all the bits of the project are done.
Debconf for modules
Well with them [...]


Both helpers, update-pam and update-nsswitch are ready for testing.
I’ve tried as many combinations and possible use errors as I could imagine, but probably I’ve missed up some one. If you try and find something not spected, something strange or have any suggestions, do not hesitate to contact me.
update-nsswitch can modify nsswitch.conf, and update-pam, modifies, [...]


Yesterday, excited, I’ve packed up libnss-ldap with the tool and a “quick & dirty” postinst script. I’ve packaged it not as a final version, even I’m not brave enough to check it with Linitan , But It doesn’t really matter, now I’m not worrying about the correction of the package. This is [...]


The program has officially started on May 26th, i was reading some documentation before starting i would like to start before, but i was working in a company.
My project will be for Debian and is called PamNssInstaller. Oh yeah great but.. What is it;
Well lets talk about files involved in this mess
nsswitch.conf This file [...]