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Date:      Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:31:22 -0800
From:      "Joel M. Baldwin" <qumqats@outel.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: -CURRENT switched from pam.conf to pam.d
Message-ID:  <1378459089.1010845882@[192.168.1.20]>
In-Reply-To: <xzp6667fyoa.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:   <xzp6667fyoa.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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The convert script seems to have an error.


su-2.05# perl -w /usr/src/etc/pam.d/convert.pl /etc/pam.conf

/(\$FreeBSD: src/: unmatched () in regexp at 
/usr/src/etc/pam.d/convert.pl line 63.
su-2.05#


--On Saturday, January 12, 2002 3:09 PM +0100 Dag-Erling Smorgrav 
<des@ofug.org> wrote:

> The preferred configuration method for PAM is now /etc/pam.d/ rather
> than /etc/pam.conf.  If you have an unmodified pam.conf, just delete
> it after your next mergemaster run.  If you have local modifications,
> you can use /usr/src/etc/pam.d/convert.pl to incorporate them into
> your /etc/pam.d:
>
># cd /etc/pam.d
># perl -w /usr/src/etc/pam.d/convert.pl /etc/pam.conf
>
> The script will create new files for non-standard services you've
> added to pam.conf, and update existing files while taking care to
> preserve the version string so as to avoid tripping up mergemaster.
>
> If you do neither of these things, then after your next mergemaster
> run PAM will start using the policies in /etc/pam.d instead of
> /etc/pam.conf, falling back to the latter only when no appropriate
> policy was found in the former.
>
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org
>
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