Re: [FPM-devel] Mandrake RPMs

[Manuel E. S. <ran...@ra...>]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 10:28:20AM -0500, John Conneely wrote:
> Well, I've been away from it for a while, but I might try to take a
> crack at those bugs.  If anyone else is interested in helping me
> maintain it, please let me know -- I know FPM deserves a lot more
> attention than I'm giving it.

 Helo guys, 

 A while back there was an initiative to build a replacement for gpasman
 called dpasman, we talked a lot and coded little. Finally we found fpm
 and decided to drop the idea in favor of contributing to it, but that
 didn't happen. The most I actually did was making a patch to allow fpm
 to read gpasman's password files, which I only sent to the "Debian Bug
 Tracking System" and never got around to rework it against cvs and send
 it upstream :(

 Fpm is the only program of it's kind for GNU/Linux that I know of and
 it would be a pity if it get's abandoned.
 
 Here you can read the ideas that came out of the dpasman initiative:

	http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/dpasman/dpasman/docs/design.txt?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup


 That said, I am willing to give a hand on both the debian packing and
 upstream development.

 Could someone make a resume of the status of development and what needs
 to be done?

> John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian May [mailto:ba...@sn...] 
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 4:56 PM
> To: John Conneely
> Cc: 'Phil Clayton'; fpm...@li...
> Subject: Re: [FPM-devel] Mandrake RPMs
> 
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 09:36:31AM -0500, John Conneely wrote:
> > Thanks!  I haven't done any development on FPM for a while, but I'd
> love
> > to put your RPMs up.  Be sure to send me the SRPMs too.
> 
> Is development likely to start up again anytime?
> 
> Currently I maintain the fpm package for Debian, but I may be
> forced to orphan the package, because I do not have time to
> fix these bug reports which keep a growing, eg:
> 
> #144895 passwords currupted if user changes password.
> #161596 passwords entered > 24 chars silently truncated.
> #161596 passwords read > 24 chars causes fpm to crash.
> also:   memory not locked down, so passwords can be swapped to disk.
> 
> and: I can no longer build fpm on a Debian unstable system.
> I tried playing around with the Makefiles to fix the problem,
> but still couldn't get it to work (more details available on request).

 I will try to allocate some time to take a look at those problems,
 please send those details.



 Take care

 	ranty

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