crond + pam very noisy

Stephen J. Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Wed Sep 29 21:53:37 UTC 2004


On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:55:52 -0400, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> Brian Gaynor (briang at pmccorp.com) said:
> > As I recall this was added to fix a problem when using LDAP
> > authentication. Without it if the LDAP server was unreachable even local
> > logins (i.e. root) were disabled. If you're not using LDAP it is safe to
> > comment out. There was also talk of adding a "quiet" option to this pam
> > module, not sure of the status though.
> 
> The pam module has a 'quiet' option; authconfig does not set
> it by default (yet).
> 

The man page for pam_succeed_if also needs to be updated.. it doesnt
mention a quiet option.


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Stephen J Smoogen.
Professional System Administrator




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