Comment 15 for bug 369575

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Russ Allbery (rra-debian) wrote : Re: [Bug 369575] Re: Why is /usr/share/pam-configs/krb5 specifying minimum_uid= ?

"Daniel Richard G." <email address hidden> writes:

> How did PAM-related packages manage changes to /etc/pam.d/* before pam-
> auth-update came along? Yeah, automated editing is gauche, but it's not
> like you just can't do *anything* in that sort of scenario...

Doing nothing is exactly what they did, so far as I know. The base PAM
packages shipped the default files, and if the local sysadmin added any
additional modules, those files became modified conffiles and weren't
further changed by package installations.

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Russ Allbery (<email address hidden>) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>