Bug 250704 - cosmetic: reference pam_krb5.so instead of pam_krb5afs.so
Summary: cosmetic: reference pam_krb5.so instead of pam_krb5afs.so
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: authconfig
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Tomas Mraz
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-08-03 01:28 UTC by Nalin Dahyabhai
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: authconfig-5.3.17-1.fc8
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-08-24 13:03:09 UTC
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Description Nalin Dahyabhai 2007-08-03 01:28:55 UTC
In pam_krb5 1.x, the pam_krb5afs.so module included support for setting AFS
tokens using the user's Kerberos credentials, and the pam_krb5.so module didn't.

Since the 2.0 rewrite, the module has instead attempted to do the right thing by
default, and pam_krb5afs.so has been a symlink to pam_krb5.so.

The "tokens" argument should be unnecessary, too, as applications which either
access or provide access to the user's files should be using pam_setcred() or
pam_open_session(), either of which will cause tokens to be obtained, by now. 
(If a workaround is still needed in the field, the "tokens" option can be given
a list of PAM service names in /etc/krb5.conf.)  For services which don't need
the option to work properly, it'll make logins a little bit faster to not have
that redundancy there.

So we might as well simplify the code in authconfig by taking out the logic
which chooses one over the other.

I haven't got any immediate plans to remove the symlink from the pam_krb5
package, so this isn't at all urgent.


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