Re: Last night's yum update for pam - problem ??

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 ??

Paul.