Re: Introduction

[Cristian Gafton <gafton sorosis ro>]

On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Michael K. Johnson wrote:

> I'd like to work with you to integrate your changes into the official
> version of Red Hat Linux, and if you need help with getting your
> changes accepted back into the official version of each app, I'll do
> what I can.

The current status of our port is limited :-( to just making applications 
shadow aware in afashion that they will work on both shadowed and 
non-shadowed systems. What we needed was to release a preliminary version 
of those packages so that people can get them, use them , report 
problems, and most important, get used to shadow thing. I personally 
still don't consider our patches completed, since more work needs to be 
done - some applications fail to check for account expiry for example. 
We have also added few features to each packages, also for public 
testing, as we want to make sure that some of our patches don't fail 
miserably on some configurations, before submitting them to package 
maintainers.

The present status of these packages is BETA. As we clarify ourselves on 
steps to follow and a common approach to make applications shadow aware, 
we will release some new versions. We hope to have a full set of 'stable' 
patches in about two weeks, if people keep reporting 'no problems' :-). 
After this we will suggest that our patches to be incorporated in the 
mainstream RedHat distribution.

But as I see things, the next version of RedHat is going to support PAM, 
so here is the reason we want to join your efforts.

> Does that sound reasonable?

Thank you. If we will need help, we will ask you, but this will mean - at 
least for me - a break of the kind image I have about the people at 
redhat :-)))

		Cristian Gafton
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