Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 11-05-2007 Installation Manual page 238

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the approximately forty files that used to exist on the system. If you install an application
later, it inherits the already applied changes and the administrator is not required to re-
member to adjust the configuration.
The changes are simple. If you have the following configuration file (which should be
the default for most applications):
#%PAM-1.0
auth
account
password required
password required
#password required
session required
you can change it to:
#%PAM-1.0
auth
account
password include
session
10.3.24 Becoming the Superuser Using su
By default, calling su to become root does not set the PATH for root. Either call
su - to start a login shell with the complete environment for root or set
ALWAYS_SET_PATH to yes in /etc/default/su if you want to change the default
behavior of su.
10.3.25 Changes in the powersave Package
The configuration files in /etc/sysconfig/powersave have changed:
Table 10.5
Old
/etc/sysconfig/powersave/
common
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required
pam_unix2.so
required
pam_unix2.so
pam_pwcheck.so
pam_unix2.so
pam_make.so
pam_unix2.so
include
common-auth
include
common-account
common-password
include
common-session
Split Configuration Files in /etc/sysconfig/powersave
use_first_pass use_authtok
/var/yp
Now Split Into
common

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