Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:111680 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 66479 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2020 06:57:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO php-smtp4.php.net) (45.112.84.5) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 22 Aug 2020 06:57:09 -0000 Received: from php-smtp4.php.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by php-smtp4.php.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 964031804AA for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2020 22:59:14 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on php-smtp4.php.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Virus: No X-Envelope-From: Received: from ms-10.1blu.de (ms-10.1blu.de [178.254.4.101]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by php-smtp4.php.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2020 22:59:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [77.181.185.156] (helo=[192.168.178.5]) by ms-10.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k9MYa-0006ws-3l for internals@lists.php.net; Sat, 22 Aug 2020 07:59:12 +0200 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <91bf610f-fc03-3de4-ac1a-f1f9ffbefaa2@openmediavault.org> Message-ID: Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 07:59:11 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-Con-Id: 111318 X-Con-U: 0-volkertheile X-Originating-IP: 77.181.185.156 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Support PAM in PHP8 From: volker.theile@openmediavault.org (Volker Theile) > Do you see yourself taking over the maintainership by any chance? apply the patches for PHP 7 compatibility and work on PHP 8? Sorry, i don't think so because i have to maintain my own OSS project that requires enough of my attention and free time. I simply want to consume the PAM feature. Volker > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 4:19 PM Volker Theile < > volker.theile@openmediavault.org> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> i've opened the tracker issue https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=80004 >> which requests Linux PAM (pluggable authentication modules) support in >> PHP8. IMO PAM is an essential feature that is required by professional >> applications. Sadly the PECL extension https://pecl.php.net/package/PAM >> is not maintained anymore and can't be used in PHP7 without patching it. >> I fear with PHP8 this will not be possible anymore. >> >> Because of that i want to bring up this topic and start a discussion if >> it is possible to integrate PAM support in the origin Git source tree, >> so package maintainer (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu, ...) can activate it simply >> via build flag and ship this extension through their packages. By >> integrating it into the origin source tree there is no need for a PECL >> extension anymore, the benefit of this will be that the code is always >> up-to-date and can be build out of the origin source. >> > The code needs to be maintained by someone to be up to date, putting it > into php-src will not magically solve that issue. > > I don't think PAM has a chance of ever getting into php-src, even if the > PECL module is well maintained. It is just too specific, and the exact > reason that PECL exists. Do you see yourself taking over the maintainership > by any chance? apply the patches for PHP 7 compatibility and work on PHP 8? > >> Regards >> Volker >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >>