[Pkg-shadow-devel] Question about pam configuration settings regarding shadow tools

[Michal Soltys]

Hello list

While checking the pam settings for shadow services I've noticed, that 
while almost all tools provided - ch{age,fn,sh,passwd,gpasswd}, 
group{add,del,mod}, user{add,del,mod} and newusers - use only 'auth' and 
'account' services, their pam configuration files also include 
'password' service (in 'password include system-auth' form).

Similary passwd only uses 'password' service, while configuration 
includes 'auth', 'account' and 'password'.

Is it intended and there's something I missed, or is it just some 
configuration leftover from one of the earlier versions of the shadow 
package ?



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