On 01/01/13 12:33, ASV wrote:
Good afternoon and happy new year to everybody.
I'm just curious about auth.conf.
According to the detailed release notes
(http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/relnotes-detailed.html):
"auth.conf(5) has been removed because it was deprecated years
ago.[r238481]"
but according to the man pages online AUTH.CONF(5) of FBSD9.0-RELEASE:
"auth.conf contains various attributes important to the authentication
code, most notably crypt(3) for the time being. This documentation will
be updated as the /etc/auth.conf file, which is very new, evolves.".
How can something deprecated years ago being new and evolving quickly
enough to require further doc updates? Am I missing something? :)
Looks like the man page hasn't been updated in a while. If you're not
yet on 9.1, and look at auth.conf itself it says in the header comments
# Configure some authentication-related defaults. This file is being
# gradually subsumed by user class and PAM configuration.
I.e. it is/was an old way of doing things that has been replaced by
newer mechanisms. Personally I'm glad to see the team clearing out the
cruft.
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