Bug 788262

Summary: Package pam_usbng
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Patryk Zawadzki <patrys>
Component: distributionAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Version: 16CC: dennis, dmitry, rvokal
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Description Patryk Zawadzki 2012-02-07 22:11:27 UTC
The old package (pam_usb) is no longer around after the author disappeared. There is however a replacement called pam_usbng available at http://usbauth.delta-xi.net/doku.php

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2012-02-07 22:25:09 UTC
If you're willing to package this, please see the instructions at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join#OS_Developer

We don't normally add packages without active maintainers. CC'ing the old pam_usb maintainer, though.

Comment 2 Dmitry Butskoy 2012-02-08 13:58:20 UTC
Well,

I doubt that pam_usbng is needed instead of the ordinary pam_usb.

The "pam_usb" project looks solid (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pamusb/), the latest version is not too old (0.5.0 at 21.04.2011).

pam_usbng is placed at some local site, and does not provide a stable tarball yet (only svn checkouts or tarball snapshots).

Note, that this is a security-related application, hence it must not be "too raw".


Anyway, I have no interest to maintain any of them for now.

Let the Debian perform the competition with "libpam-usb" and "pam_usbng", when someone will win, I hope a maintainer will appear too.

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Comment 4 Fedora End Of Life 2013-02-13 19:32:44 UTC
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