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+pam (1.1.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Name of option for minimum Unix password length has changed
+
+ The Debian-specific 'min=n' option to pam_unix for specifying minimum
+ lengths for new passwords has been replaced by a new upstream option
+ called 'minlen=n'. If you are using 'min=n' in
+ /etc/pam.d/common-password, this will be migrated to the new option name
+ for you on upgrade. If you have configured pam_unix password changing
+ elsewhere on your system, such as in a PAM profile under
+ /usr/share/pam-configs or in other files in /etc/pam.d, you will need to
+ update them by hand for this change.
+
+ -- Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:09:30 -0700
+
+pam (1.1.0-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * pam_rhosts_auth module obsolete, symlink removed
+
+ The pam_rhosts_auth module was dropped upstream prior to the lenny
+ release and a compatibility symlink provided in the libpam-modules
+ package, pointing at the new (and not 100% compatible) pam_rhosts
+ module. This symlink has now been dropped. If you still have
+ references to pam_rhosts_auth in your /etc/pam.d/* config files, you
+ will need to fix these, since they no longer work.
+
+ For information on using pam_rhosts, see the pam_rhosts(8) manpage.
+
+ -- Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:17:16 -0700
+
+pam (1.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * pam_cracklib no longer checks for reuse of old passwords
+
+ The pam_cracklib module no longer checks /etc/security/opasswd to see
+ if the proposed password is one that was previously used. This
+ functionality has been split out into a new module, pam_pwhistory.
+
+ The pam_unix module still does its own check of /etc/security/opasswd,
+ so if you are using this module you should not need to change anything.
+
+ * Change in handling of /etc/shadow fields
+
+ The Debian PAM package included a patch to treat a value of 0 in certain
+ fields in /etc/shadow as the same as an empty field. This patch has
+ been dropped, since it caused the behavior of pam_unix to differ from
+ both that of PAM upstream and that of the shadow package.
+
+ The main consequences of this change are that:
+
+ - a "0" in the sp_expire field will be treated as a date of Jan 1, 1970
+ instead of a "never expires" value, so users with this set will be
+ unable to log in
+
+ - a "0" in the sp_inact field will indicate that the user should not be
+ allowed to change an expired password at all, instead of being allowed
+ to change an expired at any time after the expiry.
+
+ See Debian bug #308229 for more information about this change.
+
+ -- Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:13:57 -0700
+
+pam (0.99.7.1-5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Default Unix minimum password length has changed
+
+ Previous versions of pam_unix on Debian had a built-in minimum password
+ length of 1 character, and a minimum password length configured in
+ /etc/pam.d/common-password of 4 characters. This differed from the
+ upstream default of 6 characters. This has been changed, so the
+ default /etc/pam.d/common-password no longer overrides the compile-time
+ default and the compile-time default has been raised to 6 characters.
+ If you are using pam_unix but are not using the default
+ /etc/pam.d/common-password file, it is recommended that you drop any
+ min= options to pam_unix from your config unless you have stronger
+ local password requirements that the upstream default.
+
+ The password length 'max' option has also been deprecated in this
+ version because it was never written to work as suggested in the
+ documentation. If you are using pam_unix but are not using the default
+ /etc/pam.d/common-password file, you should remove any old max= options
+ to pam_unix from your config as this option will be considered an error
+ in future versions of pam.
+
+ -- Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:27:11 -0700