-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/12/2014 08:17 AM, Miroslav Suchy wrote: > I just wonder why `authconfig` creates: /etc/pam.d/system-auth -> > system-auth-ac /etc/pam.d/postlogin -> postlogin-ac > /etc/pam.d/password-auth -> password-auth-ac etc. > > Why those links and why -ac suffix? Why it does not modify > original files directly? Is there some story behind?
The way that things work is that the "system-auth" name is the one that's included into other PAM stacks that require authentication. By default, this is prepared by authconfig, but there are situations where an admin would like to take control (and not risk that later passes of authconfig might overwrite their changes). In this situation, they would break the symlink and create a separate file for the primary config file, thus guaranteeing that authconfig would not overwrite it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlLT7DUACgkQeiVVYja6o6MangCfQL87TY315GNpqOX7gQdCze8/ QdAAoJRsXZXW5oSAgkZTqPmQ4BBeRnUM =6W1e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
