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

[Paul Howarth]

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.