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ghoneycutt / puppet-module-pam

Puppet module to manage PAM
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Ability to run only certain 'submodules' so that one can ease into the PAM management more slowly. #250

Closed bschonec closed 1 year ago

bschonec commented 1 year ago

I'd like to implement the limits.d functionality of this module but I don't want to dive into the management of /etc/pam.d files yet.

I've put together a hackish proof of concept of specifying only 'submodule' of this module to run located here with the changes here I admit that I'm no developer but I'd like to get feedback about implementing the proposed feature.

ghoneycutt commented 1 year ago

This very creative though not a great pattern for consuming public modules. An easier approach to using this module would be to take a system with a PAM configuration you like and then just copy the contents of each file into Hiera using the appropriate parameters and convert the lines into a YAML array. Then you can test and be sure that the module is not actually changing anything other than adding some comments to the files. This way you can use the module as it is intended instead of going through such lengths to skip sections. Those will not be easy for anyone to maintain.