I notice that in last night's fc5 update for pam (pam-0.99.4.0-fc5.4) that there is a new file created - In the update process we see: Updating : pam [ 8/117]warning: /etc/pam.d/system-auth created as /etc/pam.d/system-auth.rpmnew So I had a look at the difference between old and new: # diff /etc/pam.d/system-auth /etc/pam.d/system-auth.rpmnew 5,6c5 < auth sufficient pam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass < auth requisite pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 500 quiet ---
auth sufficient pam_unix.so try_first_pass nullok
10,11d8 < account sufficient pam_succeed_if.so uid < 500 quiet < account required pam_permit.so 13,14c10,11 < password requisite pam_cracklib.so try_first_pass retry=3 < password sufficient pam_unix.so md5 shadow nullok try_first_pass use_authtok ---
password required pam_cracklib.so try_first_pass retry=3 password sufficient pam_unix.so try_first_pass use_authtok nullok md5 shadow
OK so there are differences - but what about the two files - # ls -il /etc/pam.d/system-auth /etc/pam.d/system-auth.rpmnew 1691130 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Mar 30 12:15 /etc/pam.d/system-auth -> system-auth-ac 1691129 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 547 May 24 14:26 /etc/pam.d/system-auth.rpmnew So the original file is a link - this difference between the two files remains even after re-booting the machine. So is it necessary to change a file or should it be left alone ?? -- mike cohler
