latest pam and "$ISA" in system-auth?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu May 19 19:16:56 UTC 2005


Ajay Sharma (ssharma at revsharecorp.com) said: 
> Hi,
> 
> I just upgraded to pam-0.75-46.10.legacy.7x on a RH73 box and there's a
> /etc/pam.d/system-auth.rpmnew file that I need to merge in.  Since I
> never really messed with that file in the past, my initial assumption
> would be to move system-auth.rpmnew to system-auth to finish the install.
> 
> But the diff looked a little wierd and I've included a diff below.  Is
> it okay to `mv system-auth.rpmnew system-auth`?  The "$ISA" thing looks
> a little off to me, but then again, I don't know too much about pam.
> Thanks for any help.

It expands to ../../lib/security in the 32-bit PAM, and ../../lib64/security
in the 64-bit PAM, so you can have one pam config file for both
32 and 64-bit PAM modules.

Bill




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