Linux-PAM-1.5.0

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Release 1.5.0

• Multiple minor bug fixes, portability fixes, and documentation improvements.
• Extended libpam API with pam_modutil_check_user_in_passwd function.
• configure: added --disable-unix option to disable build of pam_unix module.
• pam_faillock: changed /run/faillock/$USER permissions from 0600 to 0660.
• pam_limits: added support for nonewprivs item.
• pam_motd: read motd files with target user credentials skipping unreadable ones.
• pam_pwhistory: added a SELinux helper executable.
• pam_unix, pam_usertype: implemented avoidance of certain timing attacks.
• pam_wheel: implemented PAM_RUSER fallback for the case when getlogin fails.
• Removed deprecated pam_cracklib module, use pam_passwdqc (from passwdqc project) or pam_pwquality (from libpwquality project) instead.
• Removed deprecated pam_tally and pam_tally2 modules, use pam_faillock instead.
• pam_env: Reading of the user environment is deprecated and will be removed at some point in the future.
• libpam: pam_modutil_drop_priv() now correctly sets the target user's supplementary groups, allowing pam_motd to filter messages accordingly

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at revision 23888.