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

[Paul Howarth]

Mike Cohler wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>> Any changes you'd make would be overwritten if you ran "authconfig". All
>> I've done is remove the .rpmnew files on my system.
> 
> If I run authconfig --update then in fact the two files remain
> different - so how does the information in the new file that came in
> with the updates get into the file being used by the system - or am I
> being dumb here ?

I *think* that the .rpmnew version of the file serves as a default 
that's used before authconfig is run.

Someone's started a thread on this on fedora-devel-list as well, so it's 
possible that someone will come up with an "official" explanation...

Paul.