On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 03:09:56PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> The preferred configuration method for PAM is now /etc/pam.d/ rather
> than /etc/pam.conf.  If you have an unmodified pam.conf, just delete
> it after your next mergemaster run.  If you have local modifications,
> you can use /usr/src/etc/pam.d/convert.pl to incorporate them into
> your /etc/pam.d:
> 
> # cd /etc/pam.d
> # perl -w /usr/src/etc/pam.d/convert.pl /etc/pam.conf
> 
> The script will create new files for non-standard services you've
> added to pam.conf, and update existing files while taking care to
> preserve the version string so as to avoid tripping up mergemaster.

This utility should be installed so that people who upgrade from 4.x
to 5.0-RELEASE by sysinstall can update their configuration.  In fact
it should be run automatically by sysinstall's upgrade target.

Kris

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