Mike Cohler wrote:
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 ??
Any changes you'd make would be overwritten if you ran "authconfig". All
I've done is remove the .rpmnew files on my system.
Paul.
