[Pcsclite-muscle] Pam-pkcs#11 needs a new maintainer(s) soon, or it will die

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at redhat.com
Thu Jun 30 09:41:00 UTC 2016


On Thu, 2016-06-30 at 09:51 +0200, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:

> A bug [3] has been opened for Debian: "pam-pkcs11: FTBFS with openssl
> 1.1.0"
> FTBFS is Fails To Build From Source.
> When OpenSSL 1.1.0 will be included in Debian pam-pkcs11 will be
> removed from Debian, unless someone adds support of the new OpenSSL
> API.
> 
> If you (or your company) use pam-pkcs11 you should worry about the
> situation.
> 
> RedHat provides [4] pam-pkcs11 to its customers. It could be a good
> idea for RedHat to invest some R&D time to take maintenance of the
> software to keep its (paying) customers happy.

Note that in Red Hat we use pam-pkcs11 with NSS and not openssl. That
option (to my knowledge) seems to work even today.

regards,
Nikos




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