PAM files ending in "-ac"

Kenneth Stailey kstailey.lists at gmail.com
Wed Jan 16 22:52:13 UTC 2013


Sorry didn't notice how out-of-date that web site has become.

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Kenneth Stailey
<kstailey.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was looking at
> http://people.redhat.com/swells/scap-security-guide/RHEL6/output/table-rhel6-nistrefs-server.html
> and it says to change PAM files that end in "-ac" but the rule is that
> the autoconf program can re-write (clobber) PAM files that end in
> "-ac" and if you want to avoid that you copy the "-ac" file to a new
> name such as one that ends in "-local" and then reset the symbolic
> link from pointing to the "-ac" file to pointing at you "-local" file.
>
> Can the documentation be updated to reflect this?
>
> Thanks,
> Ken


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