[Open-scap] Using authconfig rather than hand editing files

[Šimon Lukašík]

On 05/25/2018 11:06 PM, Dan White wrote:
> I just messed up a baker’s dozen of RHEL 6 virtual machines by hand editing /etc/pam.d files system-auth-ac and password-auth-ac
> 
> I was able to un-mess 8 of them with an authconfig command.
> The other 5 are in various stages of recovery.  One had a snapshot but the other 4 are Oracle servers that cannot be snapshot because of shared storage.
> 
> Anyway, what I am looking for here is some brainstorming toward implementing security settings with authconfig commands rather than hand editing the files that utility can alter.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

I am not sure this is right forum for this. Nevertheless, I wouldn't be 
surprised this brainstorming ended before it even started as You didn't 
provide us particular peculiarities you are faced with and thus left us 
with very general (and thus hard) task at hand.

Kind regards,
~š.