FC5: Conflict between pam-0.99.4.0-fc5.4 and authconfig-5.2.3-1 re: /etc/pam.d/system-auth?

[Mike Carney]

Mike Cohler wrote:

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> Mike Carney <mc-al34luc <at> sbcglobal.net> writes:
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>> Greetings,
>> 
>> pam is providing /etc/pam.d/system-auth as a file. authconfig
>> generates /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac, and replaces /etc/pam.d/system-auth
>> with a symbolic link to /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac. Now that pam was just
>> updated, I have a /etc/pam.d/system-auth.rpmnew file. Since I don't
>> remember ever running authconfig, how should I resolve this conflict?
>> (was authconfig run as part of firstboot?)
>> 
>> Shouldn't pam be providing /etc/pam.d/system-auth as some kind of
>> template which would be consumed by authconfig, rather that generating
>> this conflict everytime pam is updated?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
> 
> I would rather like to know what effect this will have on a running
> system, if any, and whether this will be fixed without intervention apart
> from a yum update at some point ?

See 194246 for details.

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> Mike
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