crond + pam very noisy

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Sep 29 20:55:52 UTC 2004


Brian Gaynor (briang at pmccorp.com) said: 
> As I recall this was added to fix a problem when using LDAP
> authentication. Without it if the LDAP server was unreachable even local
> logins (i.e. root) were disabled. If you're not using LDAP it is safe to
> comment out. There was also talk of adding a "quiet" option to this pam
> module, not sure of the status though.

The pam module has a 'quiet' option; authconfig does not set
it by default (yet).

Bill




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