[release-notes] 01/01: Add issue 68 - authconfig cleanup

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commit dae069c25c464a7754303b011ae81c80a9dbcda3
Author: Petr Bokoc <pbokoc(a)redhat.com&gt;
Date:   Mon Jul 10 23:22:37 2017 +0200

    Add issue 68 - authconfig cleanup
---
 en-US/Security.xml | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/en-US/Security.xml b/en-US/Security.xml
index 9dd0452..62f5f1e 100644
--- a/en-US/Security.xml
+++ b/en-US/Security.xml
@@ -80,4 +80,25 @@
       caching for both local and remote users. As a result, user and group
       resolution in Fedora will be much faster.</para>
   </section>
+  <section id="sect-security-authconfig-cleanup">
+    <title>Authconfig cleanup</title>
+    <para>
+      Obsolete and unmaintainable code was removed from
<command>authconfig</command>. Notably:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The graphical interface
(<package>system-config-authentication</package>) and the interactive text
mode, which relied on old and unmaintained libraries
(<systemitem>GTK+2</systemitem> and
<systemitem>Glade</systemitem>) have been removed from the distribution.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The command line tool, which has been deprecated previously, continues to be
part of the distribution for legacy reasons. However, some deprecated and obsolete
functionality such as support for <systemitem>WINS</systemitem> and
<systemitem>HESIOD</systemitem> has been removed in this release.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    <para>
+      The removal effort is happening because current modern environments support
automatic configuration of remote user identities using
<systemitem>Realmd</systemitem> and <systemitem>SSSD</systemitem>
and do not require manual configuration through an interactive interface such as
<package>system-config-authentication</package>. Some of the existing
authconfig command line functionality is being preserved due to it still retaining some
usefulness in certain environments, and to suppor [...]
+    </para>
+  </section>
 </section>

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