Bug 163652

Summary:	Documentation provides incorrect line for /etc/pam.d/system-auth in samba section
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Jesse Keating <jkeating>
Component:	rhel-sag	Assignee:	Mike Behm <mbehm>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	John Ha <jha>
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Version:	4.0	CC:	adstrong
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URL:	http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-samba-configuring.html
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Description Jesse Keating 2005-07-19 21:02:28 UTC

Description of problem:
Manual rhel-sag(EN)-4-HTML-RHI (2005-06-06T17:10U1) in Chapter 23 section 23.2.3
has a line one can add to /etc/pam.d/system-auth so that updating system
password will also update samba password.  The line provided:

password required /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so nullok use_authtok try_first_pass

will not work on 64bit systems as the lib is in /lib64/ instead of /lib. 
Because of this, the file uses the $ISA variable in all lines so that both dirs
are looked in.  The line should read instead:

password    required      /lib/security/$ISA/pam_smbpass.so nullok use_authtok
try_first_pass

Without the $ISA the user will get a message about unknown module.  I"m also
told that pam no longer needs paths and you can just list the library.  But w/
RHEL4 none of the other lines in the file follow this so making the doc entry
look like the existing lines is best.  Perhaps if in the future the paths are
removed from the file, the doc should change to follow suite.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhel-sag(EN)-4-HTML-RHI (2005-06-06T17:10U1)

Comment 1 Mike Behm 2005-11-03 13:40:06 UTC

The "$ISA" has been added to the path ad will appear in the next release of this
manual.