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Bug 1037719

Summary: misleading /etc/sysconfig/authconfig description
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: David Spurek <dspurek>
Component: doc-System_Administrators_Reference_GuideAssignee: Jaromir Hradilek <jhradile>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: ecs-bugs
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Version: 7.0CC: ebenes
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Description David Spurek 2013-12-03 16:25:04 UTC
Description of problem:
/etc/sysconfig/authconfig doesn't exist by default on rhel7. If you call 'authconfig --enablekrb5 --update' for example, /etc/sysconfig/authconfig file is created with some options. Authconfig loads current setup from /etc/nsswitch.conf and from /etc/pam.d in this case. I think that values after this step couldn't be marked as default values.


I propose to add a comment that /etc/sysconfig/authconfig doesn't exist after installation. Options description can stay, but 'default values' should be removed from documentation, they are misleading.

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Comment 5 Laura Bailey 2015-05-14 06:44:16 UTC
This book has been cancelled; closing WONTFIX.