I haven't installed 9.1 yet but good to know. Thanks. On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 08:26 +0000, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 01/01/13 12:33, ASV wrote: > > Good afternoon and happy new year to everybody. > > > > I'm just curious about auth.conf. > > > > According to the detailed release notes > > (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/relnotes-detailed.html): > > "auth.conf(5) has been removed because it was deprecated years > > ago.[r238481]" > > > > but according to the man pages online AUTH.CONF(5) of FBSD9.0-RELEASE: > > "auth.conf contains various attributes important to the authentication > > code, most notably crypt(3) for the time being. This documentation will > > be updated as the /etc/auth.conf file, which is very new, evolves.". > > > > How can something deprecated years ago being new and evolving quickly > > enough to require further doc updates? Am I missing something? :) > > Looks like the man page hasn't been updated in a while. If you're not > yet on 9.1, and look at auth.conf itself it says in the header comments > > # Configure some authentication-related defaults. This file is being > # gradually subsumed by user class and PAM configuration. > > I.e. it is/was an old way of doing things that has been replaced by > newer mechanisms. Personally I'm glad to see the team clearing out the > cruft. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
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