just a curiosity about auth.conf

[ASV]

I haven't installed 9.1 yet but good to know.
Thanks.

On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 08:26 +0000, Arthur Chance wrote:
> On 01/01/13 12:33, ASV wrote:
> > Good afternoon and happy new year to everybody.
> >
> > I'm just curious about auth.conf.
> >
> > According to the detailed release notes
> > (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/relnotes-detailed.html):
> > "auth.conf(5) has been removed because it was deprecated years
> > ago.[r238481]"
> >
> > but according to the man pages online AUTH.CONF(5) of FBSD9.0-RELEASE:
> > "auth.conf contains various attributes important to the authentication
> > code, most notably crypt(3) for the time being. This documentation will
> > be updated as the /etc/auth.conf file, which is very new, evolves.".
> >
> > How can something deprecated years ago being new and evolving quickly
> > enough to require further doc updates? Am I missing something? :)
> 
> Looks like the man page hasn't been updated in a while. If you're not 
> yet on 9.1, and look at auth.conf itself it says in the header comments
> 
> # Configure some authentication-related defaults.  This file is being
> # gradually subsumed by user class and PAM configuration.
> 
> I.e. it is/was an old way of doing things that has been replaced by 
> newer mechanisms. Personally I'm glad to see the team clearing out the 
> cruft.
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