[Pcsclite-muscle] Pam-pkcs#11 needs a new maintainer(s) soon, or it will die

[Ludovic Rousseau]

Hello,

After 2 months with no volunteer to take care of pam-pkcs#11 I created a
new README.md page on the github project to indicate the project is no more
maintained.
https://github.com/OpenSC/pam_pkcs11/blob/master/README.md

I will also orphan the Debian package.
I guess the Debian (and Ubuntu) package will be remove once OpenSSL 1.1.0
is included in Debian and pam-pkcs#11 can't be rebuild.

Regards,

2016-06-30 9:51 GMT+02:00 Ludovic Rousseau <ludovic.rousseau at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> PAM PKCS#11 [1] is a Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) using a
> PKCS#11 library (smart card, crypto token, etc.). The purpose is to be
> able to use a smart card to login to a GNU/Linux system.
>
> With the introduction of OpenSSL 1.1.0 the API has changed and many
> software, including pam-pkcs#11, need to be updated to use the new
> API. For example see [2] for a patch for OpenSC.
>
> I am the only maintainer of pam-pkcs11 project. I do not use this
> software myself any more.
> I do not have the free time (and motivation) to invest in a code
> change of pam-pkcs11 to support the new OpenSSL API.
> If nobody volunteers to do this work then:
> - pam-pkcs11 will not work with OpenSSL 1.1.0
> - pam-pkcs11 will be removed from the GNU/Linux distributions
> - pam-pkcs11 will not be usable any more.
>
> A bug [3] has been opened for Debian: "pam-pkcs11: FTBFS with openssl
> 1.1.0"
> FTBFS is Fails To Build From Source.
> When OpenSSL 1.1.0 will be included in Debian pam-pkcs11 will be
> removed from Debian, unless someone adds support of the new OpenSSL
> API.
>
> If you (or your company) use pam-pkcs11 you should worry about the
> situation.
>
> RedHat provides [4] pam-pkcs11 to its customers. It could be a good
> idea for RedHat to invest some R&D time to take maintenance of the
> software to keep its (paying) customers happy.
>
> Regards,
>
> [1] https://github.com/OpenSC/pam_pkcs11/wiki
> [2] https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/pull/749/files
> [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=828487
> [4] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_
> Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Managing_Smart_Cards/enabling-
> smart-card-login.html
>
> --
>  Dr. Ludovic Rousseau
>



-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau
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