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Effect of entries in /etc/securetty
By default on RHEL 5.5 I have
[deuberger@saleen trunk]$ sudo cat /etc/securetty
console
vc/1
vc/2
vc/3
vc/4
vc/5
vc/6
vc/7
vc/8
vc/9
vc/10
vc/11
tty1
tty2
tty3
tty4
tty5
tty6
tty7
tty8
tty9
tty10
...
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Preventing `passwd` for asking for the local password
I have setup the sever to only use LDAP for authentication by using authconfig-tui. Everything works well but, when I run passwd, I get two prompts for a password:
[beamin@rhel6-test-server1 ~]$ ...
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Confused about PAM configuration stanza and the roles of the control-flag parameters
I just begun studying for the RHCE. While on the topic of PAM configuration, I was a little perplexed with this stanza from /etc/pam.d/system-auth:
auth required pam_env.so
auth ...
