Scott Ehrlich wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Tim Meanor wrote:
Just edit system-auth directly. authconfig is okay for doing some initial configuration, but once you get beyond that, you'll have to just edit the files directly.
Again, the top of the system-auth file has comments saying it is auto-generated and any changes made to it will be overwritten by authconfig, which makes me hesitant to change the file, as the changes may not stick. It seems your info contradicts the file's own warnings, not saying you are wrong, but trying to find the right answer compared to what the file itself says.
take a look at "man authconfig".
in particular the FILES section.
ls -l /etc/pam.d/system-auth*
authconfig modifies /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac, /etc/pam.d/system-auth is a symlink to /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac.
rm -f /etc/pam.d/system-auth cp /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac /etc/pam.d/system-auth
and edit away without fear of authconfig.
Ben