Bug 433776

Summary: Add possibility to rollback configuration files
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Component: authconfigAssignee: Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Fixed In Version: authconfig-5.4.0-1 Doc Type: Enhancement
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Description Tomas Mraz 2008-02-21 13:01:22 UTC
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 08:58 -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 09:21 +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 11:50 -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > > Do you have any good idea on how to reasonably "snapshot" the system
> > > configuration so that I can get back to the original configuration after
> > > I have modified the system calling authconfig ?
> > I see only one possibility - backup all the files which are modified by
> > authconfig so they can be used to restore the original configuration.
> > Unfortunately authconfig doesn't create the backups itself.
> 
> Including the pam stack and nsswitch ?
> hmmm
> I think having a rollback mode in authconfig would be very useful.
> 
> Thanks,
> Simo.

Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2008-03-10 15:47:05 UTC
authconfig --savebackup <name> and authconfig --restorebackup <name> is implemented.