pam-krb5 4.7

It's been a long, long time since the last upstream release. Rather too long, as the changes to the portability and test framework were larger than the changes to the module itself. But there are a few bug fixes here and one new feature.

The new feature is a new option, no_update_user, which disables the normal update of PAM_USER for the rest of the PAM stack to the canonicalized local username. This allows users to do things like enter Kerberos principals into the login prompt and have the right thing happen, but sometimes it's important to keep the authentication credentials as originally entered and not canonicalize, even if there's a local canonicalization available. This new option allows that.

In the bug-fix department, the module now suppresses spurious password prompts from Heimdal while using PKINIT and understands more Kerberos errors for purposes of try_first_pass support and returning better PAM errors.

The documentation now notes next to each option the version of pam-krb5 at which it was introduced with its current meaning.

You can get the latest version from the pam-krb5 distribution page.

Posted: 2014-12-25 20:01 — Why no comments?

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