I just did an update, and PAM was was one of the modules.
Yum has placed /etc/pam.d/system-auth.rpmnew and it's different than the existing file, which is actually a link to system-auth-ac.
The files are slightly different, and I'm wondering if the differences are important. I can't find any docs on the reason for the change, so before I spend time becoming a PAM expert, I'm wondering if anyone knows why this change was made, or were it might be documented.
Thanks, --Bill
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:03 PM, listmail listmail@entertech.com wrote:
Yum has placed /etc/pam.d/system-auth.rpmnew and it's different than the existing file, which is actually a link to system-auth-ac.
The exact same question came up two weeks ago. Look here: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-June/102092.html
HTH, Filipe
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 ;-)
Kai
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?
TIA, --Bill
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
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