Ubuntu
kerberos-configs package

  1. Bug #369575
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 369575

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Russ Allbery (rra-debian) wrote : Re: [Bug 369575] Re: Why is /usr/share/pam-configs/krb5 specifying minimum_uid= ?

"Daniel Richard G." <email address hidden> writes:

> No no, the goal is not to have Kerberos users with uid < 1000. It's to
> push minimum_uid higher, so that you can have normal 1000-something-uid
> local users authenticate without any Kerberos interaction. Same argument
> as for the root user and ignore_root.

Oh, sorry. I forgot the context. I even re-read the bug and missed
that. Apologies.

> As for doing the upgrade, isn't pam-configs/krb5 a conffile? The user
> would see what's going on.

No, it's not a conffile. The generated /etc/pam.d files are configuration
files, but if the user is using the defaults, I believe changes to the
defaults are just automatically applied (although Steve would know better
than I). And krb5.conf normally isn't updated once written and I don't
think it could be updated with this particular type of change.

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Russ Allbery (<email address hidden>) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>