[linux-audio-user] LKML: Time to remove LSM (was Re: [RESEND][RFC][PATCH 2/7] implementation of LSM hooks)

Dana Olson dana at ubuntustudio.com
Mon Apr 17 20:23:18 EDT 2006


On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 19:44 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 16:33 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Lee,
> >    Is that what is specifically required or do we need PAM updated AND
> > some new ebuild for set_rlimits? 
> 
> One or the other - doing both would be pointless.
>
> Actually if your distros glibc is also old then you may need to patch
> PAM rather than upgrade it.

Someone linked to a page for Breezy earlier from my wiki, which IIRC
also used PAM 0.78 (it's been a while). That patch there should be
trivial to apply to Gentoo's PAM. And that's all that would be required.

> Basically set_rtlimits should be considered a stopgap measure to make
> non-root SCHED_FIFO work until your distro gets it together and updates
> their PAM and glibc ;-)

Or for users of Slackware or other such non-PAM-using distros. :)

> See why I recommend just upgrading to a distro with a quicker release
> cycle?

Yup. Dapper is just a month and a half away from proper release. ;)

> Lee
> 
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