FC5: Conflict between pam-0.99.4.0-fc5.4 and authconfig-5.2.3-1 re: /etc/pam.d/system-auth?

[Mike Cohler]

Mike Carney <mc-al34luc <at> sbcglobal.net> writes:

> 
> Greetings,
> 
> pam is providing /etc/pam.d/system-auth as a file. authconfig
> generates /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac, and replaces /etc/pam.d/system-auth
> with a symbolic link to /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac. Now that pam was just
> updated, I have a /etc/pam.d/system-auth.rpmnew file. Since I don't
> remember ever running authconfig, how should I resolve this conflict? (was
> authconfig run as part of firstboot?)
> 
> Shouldn't pam be providing /etc/pam.d/system-auth as some kind of template
> which would be consumed by authconfig, rather that generating this conflict
> everytime pam is updated?
> 
> Thanks!
> 

I would rather like to know what effect this will have on a running system, if
any, and whether this will be fixed without intervention apart from a yum update
at some point ?

Mike