On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 23:12, William Ballard wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 11:04:41PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > Problem for me, as I said: no docs that I found so far on which file in > > /etc/pam.d is used by which service. Which currently renders the whole > > PAM system close to unusable for me ... > > I don't know very much about how it works myself (except by casual > observation and wild assed guesses -- I just leave it alone but I > wondered about the change myself). > > You can figure out what uses what by using dlocate -S to see the file > that a package is in.
Thanks for pointing to it, but I think I was not very clear on what I meant with "no docs that I found so far on which file in /etc/pam.d is used by which service" With "service" I meant the apps that I run that check the files in /etc/pam.d when called. To know the package that the files in /etc/pam.d are part of could be interesting, but knowing that doesn't probably help me much to understand why in one situation an app like passwd perhaps might be checking /etc/pam.d/common-account and in another one /etc/pam.d/common-auth. (The latter just being examples). I found some docs in libpam-doc, but it seems they're rather dated and don't know anything about the files I mentioned in my first message. The only chance we have, as it seems, is that one of the coders of the packages that the common-* files are part of is seeing this thread ... let's hope ... :) Best Regards Wolfgang -- Profile, Links: http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]