Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > Scott wrote: > | 1. authconfig - used to turn on/off MD5 passwords > > # dpkg-reconfigure -plow passwd > > will prompt you (again) for whether or not to enable md5 passwords. > I /think/ answer to that question affects how /etc/login.defs and/or > /etc/pam.d/{login,passwd} are created/modified.
It affects /etc/pam.d/* for anything that uses the 'password' service from PAM. So the list of files is indefinite. so using dpkg-reconfigure is certainly a good recommendation. Related to this is the shadow password configuration. There is a standalone utility to deal with that and the dpkg-reconfigure above calls it as needed. 'shadowconfig on' and 'shadowconfig off' > | 2. hwconf - shows what hardware is in place > > I don't think there is an equivalent. What functionality do you need > out of this? The 'lspci' command will list the PCI devices. Other > hardware info, as seen by the kernel, can be found in /proc. There > are probably other sources of information, depending on what you are > looking for. Note that lspci as a non-root only shows you some things. To get all of the information which is more equivalent to hwconf you need to run as root and supply -v. sudo lspci -v > | 4. syslog - syslog configuration including syslogd options > > /etc/syslog.conf RH /etc/sysconfig/syslog file sets options. Things like this. SYSLOGD_OPTIONS="-m 0" This is more similar to /etc/default/* on Debian. Normally you would look there. But for syslogd itself there is not any equivalent /etc/default/syslog file. Probably there should be. Bug 98631 documents this at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=98631 So for syslog you will need to edit the /etc/init.d/sysklogd startup script and change the 'SYSLOGD=""' options at the top of that file. Bob
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