Latest revision as of 17:14, 3 December 2024

Remove pam-ssh-agent component

This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux.
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Summary

Drop pam_ssh_agent_auth component from Fedora 42

Owner

Name: Dmitry Belyavskiy
Email: dbelyavs@redhat.com

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora Linux 42
Last updated: 2024-12-03
Announced
Discussion thread
FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

pam_ssh_agent_auth is a subpackage of openssh developed separately. Last years its development has effectively stopped and we are not aware of it being used actively.

The goal of this proposal is to drop this package (as it will be done in RHEL10) to reduce the maintenance burden.

Feedback

Benefit to Fedora

Removing a package of limited use and maintenance
Reducing the maintenance burden

Scope

Proposal owners: remove the corresponding files from OpenSSH package

Other developers:

Release engineering: #Releng issue number

Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Alignment with the Fedora Strategy:

Upgrade/compatibility impact

The users can still use this package from previous distributions if they really need it.

Early Testing (Optional)

Do you require 'QA Blueprint' support? N

How To Test

User Experience

I expect the user experience effects to be minor because of quite limited usage of this package

Dependencies

None

Contingency Plan

There are 2 relevant options:

Return the previous state of the package
build a more modern alternative, pam_rssh, https://github.com/z4yx/pam_rssh, for Fedora

Blocks release? No

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release Notes

We drop pam_ssh_agent_auth module

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