From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 2 18:15:24 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7A05450 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 18:15:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from asv@inhio.eu) Received: from cz-prg-mx-01.inhio.eu (mail.inhio.eu [178.238.36.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1DC51ABA for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 18:15:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.2.3] (93-45-216-171.ip104.fastwebnet.it [93.45.216.171]) by cz-prg-mx-01.inhio.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5722D6241D for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2013 12:33:28 +0000 (UTC) Subject: just a curiosity about auth.conf From: ASV To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 13:33:27 +0100 Message-ID: <1357043607.2063.13.camel@blackfriar.inhio.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:15:24 -0000 Good afternoon and happy new year to everybody. I'm just curious about auth.conf. According to the detailed release notes (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/relnotes-detailed.html): "auth.conf(5) has been removed because it was deprecated years ago.[r238481]" but according to the man pages online AUTH.CONF(5) of FBSD9.0-RELEASE: "auth.conf contains various attributes important to the authentication code, most notably crypt(3) for the time being. This documentation will be updated as the /etc/auth.conf file, which is very new, evolves.". How can something deprecated years ago being new and evolving quickly enough to require further doc updates? Am I missing something? :)