[CentOS] /etc/pam.d/system-auth changes in update

Fri Jul 11 02:19:44 UTC 2008
Toby Bluhm <tkb at midwestinstruments.com>

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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