Bug 89896

Summary: man pam refers to nonexistant file /etc/pam-conf
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: David Balažic <david.balazic>
Component: pamAssignee: Tomas Mraz <t8m>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Jay Turner <jturner>
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Description David Balažic 2003-04-29 15:23:37 UTC
Description of problem:

The man page for pam(8) says 

SYNOPSIS
       /etc/pam.conf

but there is no /etc/pam.conf file on the system.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

pam-0.75-48

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. man pam
2. cat /etc/pam.conf
3.
    
Actual results:

cat: /etc/pam.conf: No such file or directory

Expected results:

The contents of /etc/pam.conf are displayed

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2004-09-21 13:48:22 UTC
This isn't bug. Citing man page:

The /etc/pam.conf - the configuration file
    /etc/pam.d/ - the Linux-PAM configuration directory. Generally, if
this directory is present, the /etc/pam.conf file is ignored.

The directory is there why should be there the file if it's contents
is ignored anyway?