libpam 1.5.2 update

Bills, Jason M jason.m.bills at linux.intel.com
Tue May 2 09:55:39 AEST 2023


Hi All,

I have pushed a change to update libpam to 1.5.2: 
https://gerrit.openbmc.org/c/openbmc/openbmc/+/41357.

This update deprecates both pam_tally2 and pam_cracklib and replaces 
them with pam_faillock and pam_pwquality, respectively.

Please review and test if you have any customizations around the 
deprecated modules.

I did my best to convert existing code that I found related to 
pam_cracklib over to pam_pwquality.

If you have any affected code in meta-ampere, meta-google, or 
meta-supermicro, please check it to make sure I have correctly applied 
your changes.

Thanks!
-Jason


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