sys-libs/libcap-2.20[pam] should probably install pam_cap.so into the stack. I think this was even done in earlier versions...? Reproducible: Always
libcap-2.20.ebuild: dopammod pam_cap/pam_cap.so libcap-2.20.ebuild: dopamsecurity '' pam_cap/capability.conf It has the right bells and whistles, so you'll need to paste the output of `emerge --info =sys-libs/libcap-2.20' into a comment and attach the entire build log.
From reading the eclass, these commands only install the files, but not insert anything into the pam stack, i.e. system-auth. Is that correct?
Right, those eclass commands do not modify system-auth or system-login. However pam modules outside of pambase don't get automatically inserted into the pam stack, and pam_cap is no exception -- even checked old obsoleted versions of libcap and none of them changed your PAM stack. I doubt the PAM maintainers approve of module ebuilds tampering with system-critical PAM configs like system-auth and login-auth, which would be why they didn't provide any eclass functions to do so. On the other hand, I'm not actually maintaining libcap... so go ahead and post your system info if you still want to run this suggestion by the maintainers.
Portage 2.2.0_alpha19 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.5.2, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.37-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.37-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_5000+-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:20:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1, 3.1.3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.3-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.7.0 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.2, 4.6.0_alpha20110122::toolchain sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) Repositories: gentoo kde pcsx2 oss-overlay sunrise gamerlay-stable toolchain qt-symbian-overlay local ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -march=athlon64-sse3 -ftree-vectorize" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php 5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -march=athlon64-sse3 -ftree-vectorize" DISTDIR="/var/cache/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--depclean-lib-check n --with-bdeps y --keep-going" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms sign strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userp riv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--hash-style=gnu" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/var/cache/portage/packages" PORTAGE_COMPRESS="xz" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/var/cache/portage/gentoo" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/cache/portage/layman/kde /var/cache/portage/layman/pcsx2 /var/cache/portage/layman/oss-overlay /var/cache/portage/layman/sunrise /var/cache/portage/layman/gamerlay /var/cache/portage/layman/ toolchain /var/cache/portage/layman/qt-symbian-overlay /var/cache/portage/local" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 212446 ***
