[Bug 682662] Re: pam-auth-update ignores debconf settings

[Filip Pytloun]

Also facing this issue, it's weird that newer pam-auth-update also ignores default option in pam configs. So now it's not possible to non-interactively enable new profile (but it was working in trusty).
Here's updated script to add one profile (mkhomedir) to current set of profiles:

#!/bin/sh

PROFILES=$(debconf-get-selections | grep libpam-runtime/profiles | cut -d ' ' -f 2- | sed s/\,\ mkhomedir//g)
PROFILES="${PROFILES}, mkhomedir"

for profile in /usr/share/pam-configs/*; do
	profile_name=$(grep Name: $profile | cut -d ' ' -f 2-)
	PROFILES=$(echo $PROFILES | sed s,$(basename $profile),"${profile_name}",g)
done

cat > $1 <<EOF
libpam-runtime/profiles="${PROFILES}"
EOF

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Title:
  pam-auth-update ignores debconf settings

Status in pam package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in pam package in Debian:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  pam-auth-update ignores the current debconf-settings. This makes it
  impossible to do automatically configure pam in noninteractive
  installations.

  Demonstration:

  ~ # debconf-get-selections | grep libpam-runtime
  libpam-runtime	libpam-runtime/override	boolean	true
  libpam-runtime	libpam-runtime/conflicts	error	
  libpam-runtime	libpam-runtime/no_profiles_chosen	error	
  libpam-runtime	libpam-runtime/profiles	multiselect	krb5, unix, ldap, tmpdir, gnome-keyring, consolekit
  libpam-runtime	libpam-runtime/you-had-no-auth	error	

  ~ # DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive pam-auth-update

  ~ # debconf-get-selections | grep libpam-runtime
  libpam-runtime	libpam-runtime/override	boolean	false
  libpam-runtime	libpam-runtime/conflicts	error	
  libpam-runtime	libpam-runtime/no_profiles_chosen	error	
  libpam-runtime	libpam-runtime/profiles	multiselect	krb5, unix, winbind, ldap
  libpam-runtime	libpam-runtime/you-had-no-auth	error

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