Re: [HEADS UP] fprintd-pam update vs "authconfig --update"

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Forgot to mention that if you were using fingerprint reader with
fprintd-0.7.0-1.fc2{5,6}, it won't work anymore after the latest update
[3] ....


Vít


Dne 17.2.2017 v 13:21 Vít Ondruch napsal(a):
> Hi,
>
> Please be careful with fprintd-pam update. It might happen that you
> might not be able to log in to your computer anymore as it happened to me.
>
>
> The story is approximately as follows:
>
> 1) You install your computer.
>
> 2) You install SSSD, configure it and live happy ever after.
>
> 3) But there is some new functionality and new default in authconfig
> introduced [1], but the computer keeps working, because the
> configuration is not applied.
>
> 4) Then there is discovered, that if fprintd-pam is removed, there is
> some harmless error reported in logs and there is fix applied [2].
>
> 5) As it turns out, the fingerprint reader is actually unregistered by
> every update, since there is bug in the scriptlet [3]. This is fixed but
> it triggers the update and PAM configuration update.
>
> 6) Since the PAM configuration was updated, the new default from (3) is
> applied and therefore I cannot login anymore.
>
>
> I believe, that the "authconfig --update" should not be called
> automatically during update and no other package does that as far as I
> can tell. Therefore, I reported this into BZ [4], but since I am not PAM
> expert, any comments are welcome.
>
>
> Vít
>
>
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195817
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203671
> [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1398371
> [4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1423480
>
>
>
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