modifying system-auth

[John O'Loughlin]

I think you need to edit the file yourself, but its warning you that if 
you run auth-config any changs you make will be lost, since it regenerates 
the file rather than modifying it.

John

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Bill Tangren wrote:

> I am required to add lines to /etc/pam.d/system-auth similar to the 
> following:
>
> auth required /lib/security/pam_tally.so onerr=fail no_magic_root
>
> password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so   retry=3 minlen=8 
> lcredit=-1
> ucredit=-1
>
> password sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so nullok use_authok md5 shadow
> remember=15
>
>
>
> The comments in the top of the file say:
> #%PAM-1.0
> # This file is auto-generated.
> # User changes will be destroyed the next time authconfig is run.
>
> I have tested this and find that it is true. I have tried running 
> authconfig and
> system-config-authentication. I have been unsuccessful in getting them to 
> add
> lines like this.
>
> Could someone point me to the documentation that will explain how to add 
> these lines to auth-config? Is it as simple as not using the configuration 
> tools?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bill Tangren
>
>
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