Description of problem: /etc/pam.d/system-auth is a symlink to system-auth-ac however pam's spec file lists it as a regular file. /etc/pam.d/system-auth 683 1208976369 b0c0297178ababca749614b034f85c16 0100644 root root 1 0 0 X This causes verification error for pam package. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pam-1.0.1-2.fc9.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -V pam 2. ls -l /etc/pam.d/system-auth 3. rpm -q --dump pam | grep pam.d/system-auth
The system-auth must be regular file in the pam package because the authconfig which does the symlinking doesn't have to be installed on system. Authconfig also recognizes whether the configuration is already changed by it by looking at the system-auth file - if it is regular file -> it can change it to symlink pointing it to system-auth-ac; if it is a symlink it will leave it alone. Administrator can change then the symlink to point to a different file which can contain local PAM config adjustments.