Why authconfig create -ac files

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 08:37:57AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> that's included into other PAM stacks that require authentication. By
> default, this is prepared by authconfig, but there are situations
> where an admin would like to take control (and not risk that later
> passes of authconfig might overwrite their changes). In this
> situation, they would break the symlink and create a separate file for
> the primary config file, thus guaranteeing that authconfig would not
> overwrite it.

Yeah -- as a former sysadmin, I'm gonna chime in here to say that this is
incredibly useful and much better than the older way (where authconfig would
destroy anything it did not understand).

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