Bug 639978

Summary:	authconfig should touch only those files which need an update
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Petr Šplíchal <psplicha>
Component:	authconfig	Assignee:	Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	ohudlick, tmraz
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Fixed In Version:	authconfig-6.1.11-1.fc15	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Petr Šplíchal 2010-10-04 13:28:14 UTC

Description of problem:

The problem mentioned in bug 594030 was partially fixed there.
However when disabling an authentication method the config files
/etc/nsswitch.conf & /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac are still being
overwritten although no change in configuration happened:

# rpm -q authconfig
authconfig-6.1.4-6.el6.x86_64

# strace authconfig --update --enablesssd --enablesssdauth 2>&1 | grep
'/etc/.*O_CREAT'
open("/etc/nsswitch.confx8WJpR", ...
open("/etc/pam.d/system-auth-acnUklPk", ...
open("/etc/pam.d/password-auth-ac2Kcu8M", ...
open("/etc/pam.d/fingerprint-auth-acp4c7ME", ...
open("/etc/pam.d/smartcard-auth-ac4QEm1m", ...

# strace authconfig --update --enablesssd --enablesssdauth 2>&1 | grep
'/etc/.*O_CREAT'

# strace authconfig --update --disablesssd --disablesssdauth 2>&1 | grep
'/etc/.*O_CREAT'
open("/etc/nsswitch.confUfn0do", ...
open("/etc/pam.d/system-auth-accgstF4", ...
open("/etc/pam.d/password-auth-aci5dHcy", ...
open("/etc/pam.d/fingerprint-auth-acgG4q2e", ...
open("/etc/pam.d/smartcard-auth-acv98bfI", ...

# strace authconfig --update --disablesssd --disablesssdauth 2>&1 | grep
'/etc/.*O_CREAT'
open("/etc/pam.d/system-auth-acHOUPIf", ...
open("/etc/pam.d/password-auth-acLy5lu5", ...
open("/etc/pam.d/fingerprint-auth-ac8uGc9q", ...
open("/etc/pam.d/smartcard-auth-acynG2CU", ...

Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2010-10-11 19:27:33 UTC

Hopefully fixed in the latest authconfig release.