Re: [CentOS] system-auth.rpmnew

2008-06-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
William L. Maltby wrote on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:09:17 -0400: IMO, it's never OK w/o first examining the effects. The rpmnew is provided specifically because replacing the previous one may be highly destructive to the aims of that system's users/admins. I've not looked, but I suspect the

Re: [CentOS] system-auth.rpmnew

2008-06-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 13:14 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: William L. Maltby wrote on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:09:17 -0400: IMO, it's never OK w/o first examining the effects. The rpmnew is provided specifically because replacing the previous one may be highly destructive to the aims of that

Re: [CentOS] system-auth.rpmnew

2008-06-30 Thread Toby Bluhm
Kai Schaetzl wrote: William L. Maltby wrote on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:09:17 -0400: IMO, it's never OK w/o first examining the effects. The rpmnew is provided specifically because replacing the previous one may be highly destructive to the aims of that system's users/admins. I've not looked,

Re: [CentOS] system-auth.rpmnew

2008-06-30 Thread Stephen Harris
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 08:54:29AM -0400, Toby Bluhm wrote: ls -als /etc/pam.d/system-auth* 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 May 10 2007 /etc/pam.d/system-auth - system-auth-ac 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 848 May 10 2007 /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac system-auth-ac is the results of running

Re: [CentOS] system-auth.rpmnew

2008-06-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Toby Bluhm wrote on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:54:29 -0400: rpm -q --whatprovides /etc/pam.d/system-auth pam-0.99.6.2-3.27.el5 rpm -q --whatprovides /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac authconfig-5.3.21-3.el5 So, possible conclusion: they want to make pam self-sufficient, thus replacing the symlink to a

[CentOS] system-auth.rpmnew

2008-06-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
The upgrade to 5.2 creates /etc/pam.d/system-auth.rpmnew. I see that /etc/pam.d/system-auth actually is a symlink to system-auth-ac. Is it recommended to replace that symlink with the rpmnew file? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services:

Re: [CentOS] system-auth.rpmnew

2008-06-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 14:57 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: The upgrade to 5.2 creates /etc/pam.d/system-auth.rpmnew. I see that /etc/pam.d/system-auth actually is a symlink to system-auth-ac. Is it recommended to replace that symlink with the rpmnew file? IMO, it's never OK w/o first examining