From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 3 20:33:59 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 968407C2 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 20:33:59 +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 5B4AE1BF for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 20:33:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.2.2] (93-45-193-105.ip103.fastwebnet.it [93.45.193.105]) by cz-prg-mx-01.inhio.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 969DE62BF1; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 20:33:51 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1357245230.2060.1.camel@pulsar> Subject: Re: just a curiosity about auth.conf From: ASV To: Arthur Chance Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:33:50 +0100 In-Reply-To: <50E540C8.2040808@qeng-ho.org> References: <1357043607.2063.13.camel@blackfriar.inhio.eu> <50E540C8.2040808@qeng-ho.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4 (3.4.4-2.fc17) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:33:59 -0000 I haven't installed 9.1 yet but good to know. Thanks. On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 08:26 +0000, Arthur Chance wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"