Bug #21556 “missing manpage for limits.conf” : Bugs : pam package : Debian

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asdf (asdf123123-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2005-09-13:

#1

I cannot find the manpage for limits.conf on my ubuntu sys (breezy), on my
debian sarge box it exists. Here are the related packages i installed. I'm not
sure if other manpages are missing too.

< root@nx7010:~ [0] # dpkg -l | grep manpages | awk '{print $2}'
manpages
manpages-dev
manpages-posix
manpages-posix-dev

Thx for your time in advance.

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Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen) wrote on 2005-09-14:

#2

It has been removed on purpose:

shadow (1:4.0.3-36) unstable; urgency=low
[...]
    - Remove limits.5 and limits.conf.5 man pages which do not
      reflect the way we deal with limits in Debian
      Closes: #288106, #244754
[...]
-- Christian Perrier <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:37:56 +0300

So it's a bug that it's in Debian too.

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asdf (asdf123123-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2005-09-14:

#3

Thx for reacting so fast. I read the debian bugs about this issue: As far as i
understand the problem is that some information in this manpage is simply not
correct or outdated, so they simply removed this solution. However I think
solving this issue should be to fix this manpage and not remove it ..

(to debian: I just checked my sarge box, which still has it. I think debian
removed it after the sarge release)

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asdf (asdf123123-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2005-09-14:

#4

draft for a new manpage Edit (1.7 KiB, text/plain)

Created an attachment (id=3789)
draft for a new manpage

I made a quick draft for a new manpage for limits.conf, by just copying the
comments from the default file..

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In Debian Bug tracker #313486, Nicolas François (nicolas-francois) wrote on 2006-08-15: severity of 382660 is wishlist, merging 313486 382660

#5

# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.20
severity 382660 wishlist
merge 313486 382660

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Rich Johnson (nixternal) wrote on 2006-10-03:

#6

It has been over a year since the last activity concerning this issue. Has this issue been resolved?

In the mean time, I am going to close this bug report due to inactivity and length of time. If you feel this is still an issue, I insist that you go right ahead and reopen this report. Thank you!

Changed in pam:
status:	Unconfirmed → Rejected

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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote on 2006-10-03:

#7

Inactivity is not a good reason to close a bug, unless the inactivity is because input from the reporter is needed.

Changed in pam:
status:	Rejected → Unconfirmed

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2006-12-07

Changed in pam:
status:	Unknown → Unconfirmed

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Bastian (bastian-absoluterend) wrote on 2007-04-11:

#8

I wanted to read this manpage when I tried to figure out why setting nofiles limits do not have any effect. I too consider this missing manpage a bug.

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Alessio Igor Bogani (abogani) wrote on 2007-04-12:

#9

Still present in Edgy and in Feisty Beta

Changed in pam:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen) on 2007-04-21

Changed in pam:
assignee:	tfheen → nobody

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Louis Acresti (louis.acresti) wrote on 2007-05-07:

#10

Still present in Feisty; are the default comments in the limits.conf file even correct? (See Nils' draft above)

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In Debian Bug tracker #313486, Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2007-08-21: tagging 313486, tagging 300773, tagging 330545, tagging 184270

#11

# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.6
tags 313486 pending
tags 300773 pending
tags 330545 pending
tags 184270 pending

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2007-08-22

Changed in pam:
status:	New → Fix Committed

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In Debian Bug tracker #313486, Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2007-08-27: Bug#313486: fixed in pam 0.99.7.1-2

#12

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Source: pam
Source-Version: 0.99.7.1-2

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
pam, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

libpam-cracklib_0.99.7.1-2_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/p/pam/libpam-cracklib_0.99.7.1-2_amd64.deb
libpam-cracklib_0.99.7.1-2_i386.deb
  to pool/main/p/pam/libpam-cracklib_0.99.7.1-2_i386.deb
libpam-doc_0.99.7.1-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/p/pam/libpam-doc_0.99.7.1-2_all.deb
libpam-modules_0.99.7.1-2_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/p/pam/libpam-modules_0.99.7.1-2_amd64.deb
libpam-modules_0.99.7.1-2_i386.deb
  to pool/main/p/pam/libpam-modules_0.99.7.1-2_i386.deb
libpam-runtime_0.99.7.1-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/p/pam/libpam-runtime_0.99.7.1-2_all.deb
libpam0g-dev_0.99.7.1-2_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/p/pam/libpam0g-dev_0.99.7.1-2_amd64.deb
libpam0g-dev_0.99.7.1-2_i386.deb
  to pool/main/p/pam/libpam0g-dev_0.99.7.1-2_i386.deb
libpam0g_0.99.7.1-2_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/p/pam/libpam0g_0.99.7.1-2_amd64.deb
libpam0g_0.99.7.1-2_i386.deb
  to pool/main/p/pam/libpam0g_0.99.7.1-2_i386.deb
pam_0.99.7.1-2.diff.gz
  to pool/main/p/pam/pam_0.99.7.1-2.diff.gz
pam_0.99.7.1-2.dsc
  to pool/main/p/pam/pam_0.99.7.1-2.dsc

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to <email address hidden>,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Steve Langasek <email address hidden> (supplier of updated pam package)

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Format: 1.7
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:15:09 -0700
Source: pam
Binary: libpam0g-dev libpam0g libpam-modules libpam-doc libpam-runtime libpam-cracklib
Architecture: source amd64 all i386
Version: 0.99.7.1-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
Changed-By: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
Description:
libpam-doc - Documentation of PAM
libpam-runtime - Runtime support for the PAM library
libpam-cracklib - PAM module to enable cracklib support
libpam-modules - Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM
libpam0g - Pluggable Authentication Modules library
libpam0g-dev - Development files for PAM
Closes: 62193 119689 127931 165067 178225 181451 184270 212165 220157 241661 300773 305058 313486 328084 330545 331208 333141 336344 350620 354309 360460 362855 368100 411812 412484 416665 436005 436222 439038 439040
Changes:
pam (0.99.7.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
.
   * New upstream release; thanks to Roger Leigh and Jan Christoph Nordholz
     for their extensive work in helping to prepare for this update in Debian.
     Closes: #360460.
     - now uses autoconf for library detection, so SELinux should not be
       unconditionally enabled on non-Linux archs. Closes: #333141.
     - pam_mail notice handling has been completely reworked, so there should
       no longer be missing spaces in the messages. Closes: #119689.
     -...

Source: pam
Source-Version: 0.99.7.1-2

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
pam, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

libpam-cracklib_0.99.7.1-2_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/p/pam/libpam-cracklib_0.99.7.1-2_amd64.deb
libpam-cracklib_0.99.7.1-2_i386.deb
  to pool/main/p/pam/libpam-cracklib_0.99.7.1-2_i386.deb
libpam-doc_0.99.7.1-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/p/pam/libpam-doc_0.99.7.1-2_all.deb
libpam-modules_0.99.7.1-2_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/p/pam/libpam-modules_0.99.7.1-2_amd64.deb
libpam-modules_0.99.7.1-2_i386.deb
  to pool/main/p/pam/libpam-modules_0.99.7.1-2_i386.deb
libpam-runtime_0.99.7.1-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/p/pam/libpam-runtime_0.99.7.1-2_all.deb
libpam0g-dev_0.99.7.1-2_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/p/pam/libpam0g-dev_0.99.7.1-2_amd64.deb
libpam0g-dev_0.99.7.1-2_i386.deb
  to pool/main/p/pam/libpam0g-dev_0.99.7.1-2_i386.deb
libpam0g_0.99.7.1-2_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/p/pam/libpam0g_0.99.7.1-2_amd64.deb
libpam0g_0.99.7.1-2_i386.deb
  to pool/main/p/pam/libpam0g_0.99.7.1-2_i386.deb
pam_0.99.7.1-2.diff.gz
  to pool/main/p/pam/pam_0.99.7.1-2.diff.gz
pam_0.99.7.1-2.dsc
  to pool/main/p/pam/pam_0.99.7.1-2.dsc

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 313486@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> (supplier of updated pam package)

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believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Format: 1.7
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:15:09 -0700
Source: pam
Binary: libpam0g-dev libpam0g libpam-modules libpam-doc libpam-runtime libpam-cracklib
Architecture: source amd64 all i386
Version: 0.99.7.1-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Changed-By: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Description: 
 libpam-doc - Documentation of PAM
 libpam-runtime - Runtime support for the PAM library
 libpam-cracklib - PAM module to enable cracklib support
 libpam-modules - Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM
 libpam0g   - Pluggable Authentication Modules library
 libpam0g-dev - Development files for PAM
Closes: 62193 119689 127931 165067 178225 181451 184270 212165 220157 241661 300773 305058 313486 328084 330545 331208 333141 336344 350620 354309 360460 362855 368100 411812 412484 416665 436005 436222 439038 439040
Changes: 
 pam (0.99.7.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release; thanks to Roger Leigh and Jan Christoph Nordholz
     for their extensive work in helping to prepare for this update in Debian.
     Closes: #360460.
     - now uses autoconf for library detection, so SELinux should not be
       unconditionally enabled on non-Linux archs.  Closes: #333141.
     - pam_mail notice handling has been completely reworked, so there should
       no longer be missing spaces in the messages.  Closes: #119689.
     - with libtool and autoconf, now behaves "sensibly" on unknown
       platforms.  Closes: #165067.
     - the source now builds without warnings.  Closes: #212165.
     - uses automake instead of hand-rolled makefiles with indentation
       bugs.  Closes: #241661, #328084.
     - pam_mkhomedir now creates directories recursively as needed.
       Closes: #178225.
     - pam_listfile now supports being used as a session module too.
       Closes: #416665.
     - misspelled pam_userdb log message has been corrected.  Closes: #305058.
     - the current pam_strerror manpage no longer mentions "Unknown
       Linux-PAM error".  Closes: #220157.
     - the text documentation no longer uses ANSI bold sequences.
       Closes: #181451.
     - pam_localuser now supports being used as a session module.
       Closes: #412484.
     - package no longer fails to build with dash as /bin/sh.
       Closes: #331208.
     - All modules should now be documented in the system administrator
       guide.  Closes: #350620.
     - pam_userdb now logs an error instead of segfaulting when no db=
       option is provided.  Closes: #436005.
     - pam_time now warns on a missing tty instead of erroring out,
       making it possible to use the module with non-console services.
       Closes: #127931.
     - upstream changelog is now 'ChangeLog' instead of 'CHANGELOG'; install
       accordingly
     - bump the shlibs
     - the 'test.c' example no longer exists
     - add /usr/share/locale to libpam-runtime.
     - CVE-2005-2977: only uid=0 is allowed to invoke unix_chkpwd with an
       arbitrary username, and then only when SELinux is active.
       Closes: #336344.
   * Mark myself as primary maintainer as previously discussed with Sam, and
     add Roger as an uploader.
   * Refactor to use quilt.
   * Update to Standards-Version 3.7.2.
   * Drop unnecessary build-dependency on patch, which is
     build-essential (and no longer invoked directly).
   * Drop patches 002_debian_no_ldconfig_call, 010_pam_cplusplus,
     018_man_fixes, 030_makefile_link_against_libpam,
     037_pam_issue_ttyname_can_be_null, 044_configure_supports_bsd,
     050_configure_in_gnu and 052_pam_unix_no_openlog, which have been
     superseded upstream.
   * Drop patches 005_pam_limits_099_6,
     012_pam_group_less_restrictive_charset, 023_pam_env_limits_miscfixes,
     048_pam_group_colon_valid_char, 058_pam_env_enable, 059_pam_userdb_segv,
     060_pam_tally_segv and 062_c++_safe_headers, which have been integrated
     upstream.
   * Patch 057: SELinux support is merged upstream, leaving only an
     unrelated OOM check for pam_unix_passwd.  Rename as
     057_pam_unix_passwd_OOM_check.
   * Patches 006, 008, 036: update for the switch from SGML to XML.
   * Patch 007: update for the switch from SGML to XML; drop some log
     messages that were already added upstream; update for the pam_modutil
     changes; tighten the flag handling of the 'obscure' option; drop bogus
     check in unix_chkpwd for null passwords.  Also fix a grammar error
     along the way.  Closes: #362855.
   * Patch 024: CRACKLIB_DICTPATH is no longer set in configure.in, so patch
     pam_cracklib.c instead to use the default dictpath already available
     from crack.h; and patch configure.in to use AC_CHECK_HEADERS instead
     of AC_CHECK_HEADER, so crack.h is actually included.  Also remove
     unnecessary string copies, which break on the Hurd due to PATH_MAX.
   * Patch 038: partially merged/superseded upstream; also add new Hurd
     fix for pam_xauth.
   * Patch 061: partially merged upstream
   * Use ${binary:Version} instead of ${Source-Version} in
     debian/control.
   * Remove empty maintainer scripts debian/libpam0g-dev.{postinst,prerm},
     debian/libpam0g.{postinst,prerm}, and
     debian/libpam-modules.{postinst,prerm}; debhelper can autogenerate these
     just fine without our help.
   * Build-Depend on xsltproc, libxml2-utils, docbook-xml, docbook-xsl
     and w3m instead of on linuxdoc-tools, linuxdoc-tools-latex, tetex-extra,
     groff, and opensp.
   * Also build-depend on flex for libfl.a.
   * Updates for documentation handling:
     - move debian/local/pam-*-guide to debian/libpam-doc.doc-base.foo-guide,
       and invoke dh_installdocs instead of installing these by hand.
     - drop libpam-doc.{postinst,prerm}, which are no longer needed.
     - add an install target to debian/rules, and have binary-indep depend on
       it instead of trying to install doc files individually from the source
       tree
     - consequently, drop libpam-doc.dirs as well which is no longer needed
       and no longer accurate
     - add debian/libpam-doc.install for moving the docs to the right place,
       and also replace libpam-runtime.files with libpam-runtime.install;
       for the moment this means we're using both dh_movefiles and
       dh_install...
     - libpam0g.docs: install the Debian-PAM-MiniPolicy from here, further
       cleaning up debian/rules
   * Drop debian/libpam0g.links, no longer needed because upstream now has a
     working install target which creates the library symlinks
   * Add libpam-modules.links: create pam_unix_{acct,auth,passwd,session}.so
     symlinks by hand, no longer provided upstream.
   * debian/patches-applied/PAM-manpage-section: "PAM" is not a daemon, manpage
     belongs in section 7, not in section 8.
   * Actually ship the pam, pam.conf, and pam.d manpages in libpam-runtime.
   * debian/patches-applied/autoconf.patch: move all changes to autotools
     generated files into a single patch at the end of the stack.
     - don't touch configure in debian/rules, the quilt patch takes care
       of this for us.
   * New patch 064_pam_unix_cracklib_dictpath: correctly define
     CRACKLIB_DICTS, since this is not defined by configure.  Thanks to Jan
     Christoph Nordholz.
   * New patch 065_pam_unix_cracklib_disable: Debian-specific patch to disable
     cracklib support in pam_unix.  Thanks to Christoph Nordholz.
   * debian/rules:
     - Rename OS_CFLAGS to CFLAGS.
     - kill off references to unused variables
     - make binary-arch also depend on the install target, and streamline the
       rules
     - fix up the clean target to not ignore errors; thanks to Roger Leigh
     - drop the local module_check target in favor of using -Wl,-z,defs
       in LDFLAGS to enforce correct linkage of all objects at build time
   * Drop debian/local/unix_chkpwd.8 in favor of the upstream manpage.
   * libpam-modules.files: /usr/sbin/pam_tally has moved to /sbin/pam_tally
     for consistency.
   * Update to debhelper V5.
   * Don't ship Makefiles as part of the libpam0g-dev examples.
   * libpam-modules.manpages, libpam-runtime.manpages, libpam0g-dev.manpages:
     put all the manpages in the correct packages.  Closes: #411812,
     #62193, #313486, #300773, #330545, #184270.
   * Drop libpam{0g,0g-dev,-modules,-runtime}.dirs, not needed for anything
     because we aren't trying to ship empty directories in the packages
   * Build-Conflict with fop, to avoid unreproducible builds of pdf
     documentation from a tool in contrib.
   * libpam-cracklib should depend on a real wordlist package, per policy;
     use wamerican as the default.
   * Drop local/pam-undocumented.7 from the package, since we no longer have
     a reason to ship it
   * Add lintian overrides for known false-positives
   * Conflicts/Replaces/Provides libpam-umask, now included upstream.
     Closes: #436222.
   * Upstream no longer marks unix_chkpwd suid-root for us, so set the perms
     by hand in debian/rules.  In the process, unix_chkpwd is now writable
     by the owner, as expected by policy.  Closes: #368100.
   * Migrate from db4.3 to db4.6; once again, no administrator action should
     be needed for upgrading on-disk database formats.  Closes: #354309.
   * Add XS-Vcs-Svn and XS-Vcs-Browser fields to debian/control; thanks to
     Laurent Bigonville for the hint.  Closes: #439038.
   * Add a watch file for use with uscan; thanks to Laurent Bigonville for
     this patch as well.  Closes: #439040.
   * Rewrite of 031_pam_include, fixing a memory leak and letting us drop
     patch 056_no_label_at_end; thanks to Jan Christoph Nordholz
     <hesso@pool.math.tu-berlin.de> for this much-improved version!
   * New patch no_pthread_mutexes: don't use pthread mutexes in
     pam_modutil functions, they're not needed because pam handles
     themselves should not be used concurrently by multiple threads and
     using pthreads causes problems for portable linking.
   * New patch hurd_no_setfsuid: if we don't have sys/fsuid.h, work around
     using setreuid instead.
Files: 
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 87f644d9a98d0ffb23b41d2bf82703cc 100236 libs optional pam_0.99.7.1-2.diff.gz
 3ffaefa3f219bcb07a4ad5a68412be98 96010 admin required libpam-runtime_0.99.7.1-2_all.deb
 df109d3dc0bbce4af2d2c98918e4bbb0 264066 doc optional libpam-doc_0.99.7.1-2_all.deb
 d6ee4c373131d601aee67fdfc06bd115 75352 libs required libpam0g_0.99.7.1-2_amd64.deb
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Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2007-08-27

Changed in pam:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2007-10-13:

#14

Fixed in gutsy, which includes Linux-PAM 0.99.7.1.

Changed in pam:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	pam (Debian)	Fix Released	Unknown	debbugs #313486
	pam (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned

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