listmail wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:31:44 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote
Filipe Brandenburger wrote on Wed, 9 Jul 2008 23:08:44 -0400:
The exact same question came up two weeks ago.
And the answers were confusing at least me ;-)
To me as well, having now read the thread. No one seems to know why the changes were made, only that they *were* made. I'm still hoping that there might be documentation on the impact of these changes.
Does anyone know, or have a link to, why system-auth was changed in the most recent update to PAM?
It wasn't changed in 5.2 'cause it was that way in 5.1 - see http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-June/102152.html.
Since I didn't know the truth behind the system-auth "mystery" myself, here's some commands I ran:
yum groupinfo Base | grep -E "auth|pam" rpm -q --whatrequires pam rpm -q --whatrequires authconfig rpm -qi firstboot-tui rpm -qipl http://vault.centos.org/5.0/os/i386/CentOS/authconfig-5.3.12-2.el5.i386.rpm rpm -qipl authconfig man system-auth-ac man authconfig