On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 09:40:59AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Its not about editing the file, but about adding the "nis" > option to the pam_unix.so line using the documented > configuration interface (pam-auth-update).
Which is essentially a file edit. > I can understand that you hesitate to touch the complex > pam configuration scheme, but surely common-password is > _not_ a critical system configuration file. It is just > the default scheme for changing passwords. Messing up people's authentication schemas tends to make them grumpy, and remember that Debian has fun stuff like partially configured packages and packages which have been removed but not purged. > On openSUSE and RedHat this is not an issue. How comes > that it is on Debian? At least for RedHat the last time I looked they had a totally different model for configuring this stuff. They provided a separate application which managed all the authentication schemes together and owned the full configuration. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
