Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:26:48 +0000 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: ASV <asv@inhio.eu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: just a curiosity about auth.conf Message-ID: <50E540C8.2040808@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <1357043607.2063.13.camel@blackfriar.inhio.eu> References: <1357043607.2063.13.camel@blackfriar.inhio.eu>
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On 01/01/13 12:33, ASV wrote: > 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? :) Looks like the man page hasn't been updated in a while. If you're not yet on 9.1, and look at auth.conf itself it says in the header comments # Configure some authentication-related defaults. This file is being # gradually subsumed by user class and PAM configuration. I.e. it is/was an old way of doing things that has been replaced by newer mechanisms. Personally I'm glad to see the team clearing out the cruft.
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