Re: shadow 4.0.8 and it's etc/login.defs.linux

Tomasz Kłoczko <[email protected]> Thu, 12 May 2005 14:20:02 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.pld.shadow.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Kyle Sallee wrote:

> I knowticed the manual page for login.defs says:
>      "Much of the functionality that used to be provided by the shadow  pass-
>       word  suite  is  now handled by PAM."
>
> su and login now report:
[..]
> login also gives those configuration errors.
>
> Perhaps those lines should be removed from /etc/login.defs?
> Should they not already be removed from the default
> configuration files etc/login.defs.linux in the shadow 4.0.8 tarball, please?

This variables are now not used if shadow is compiled with PAM support.

kloczek
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