31585 – /etc/pam.d/system-auth trashing

Bug 31585 - /etc/pam.d/system-auth trashing

Summary: /etc/pam.d/system-auth trashing

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 20974

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2003-10-20 04:24 UTC by Tero Pelander
Modified:	2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
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Description Tero Pelander 2003-10-20 04:24:43 UTC

The last few sys-apps/shadow packages have been replacing the users
/etc/pam.d/system-auth file when emerging the package.

The problem is that not all of us use /etc/passwd as only source of
authentication. At last three times when I have updated my system 20 000 users
were cut of for some time because they are only listed in ldap-servers. After
all the latest "fix" in that file really isn't important enough to lock out
users without giving the admin time to react. Often shadow is just one of the
packages among others when you do "emerge -u system".

The following setting should be set to "no" in the ebuild.

FORCE_SYSTEMAUTH_UPDATE="yes"


Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-10-20 04:54:54 UTC

the latest shadow has stopped this practice

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 20974 ***