On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 01:53:23PM -0400, Paul Nicholas Faure wrote: > It is nis (yp). > I was missing the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file. What does this file do ? Is > it really required ? I created the file via `authconfig` and all seems to > be working now. It's only needed in Pinstripe and newer Raw Hide releases. It's the control file which other services use for password-checking functions. It saves us the trouble of making authconfig aware of and able to parse and correctly edit every single PAM configuration file. If you're on 6.2 or earlier, you don't need it (but authconfig shouldn't know how to generate it, either). Nalin
