Bug 1090639

Summary:	drop /etc/securetty file
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Matthew Miller <mattdm>
Component:	setup	Assignee:	Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	moez.roy, ovasik, pknirsch
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Description Matthew Miller 2014-04-23 20:12:08 UTC

See background at https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1298#comment:1 and discussion thread here: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-April/197712.html

In short, securetty doesn't scale well to the modern world of dynamic device files, and actively breaks in containers.

Please remove /etc/securetty from the package -- this will reduce confusion (since the normal semantics are that a missing file means nothing is blocked).


Thank you!

Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2014-04-23 20:36:48 UTC

Ok, based on the thread and discussion, removal in default pam auth modules and util-linux is prerequisite to not break the stuff, right? Can you please add these bugzillas to depends on, so I can track the progress in these?

Comment 2 Matthew Miller 2014-04-23 21:19:04 UTC

The related bug is #1090638, but it's not actually a dependency either way, because:

* If /etc/securetty is removed but the pam configuration unchanged, the pam module treats that as "allow anything" -- the desired state, but with extra lines in the pam file which aren't doing anything
* If the pam configuration is changed but /etc/securetty is still there, it won't work anymore, which may be confusing, but doesn't block anything

Comment 3 Matthew Miller 2014-04-23 21:19:35 UTC

Sorry, bug #1090638 (linked!)

Comment 4 Ondrej Vasik 2014-04-23 21:47:18 UTC

Ok, thanks for explanation. Will drop it in next rawhide setup build.

Comment 5 Ondrej Vasik 2014-04-23 21:57:05 UTC

Dropped in setup-2.9.0-1.fc21, closing RAWHIDE.