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 -- Toby Bluhm Alltech Medical Systems America, Inc. 30825 Aurora Road Suite 100 Solon Ohio 44139 440-424-2240 ext203