On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:55:52 -0400, Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Brian Gaynor (briang(a)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).
The man page for pam_succeed_if also needs to be updated.. it doesnt
mention a quiet option.
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Stephen J Smoogen.
Professional System Administrator