Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> Scott wrote:
> | 1. authconfig - used to turn on/off MD5 passwords
>
> # dpkg-reconfigure -plow passwd
>
> will prompt you (again) for whether or not to enable md5 passwords.
> I /think/ answer to that question affects how /etc/login.defs and/or
> /etc/pam.d/{login,passwd} are created/modified.
It affects /etc/pam.d/* for anything that uses the 'password' service
from PAM. So the list of files is indefinite. so using
dpkg-reconfigure is certainly a good recommendation.
Related to this is the shadow password configuration. There is a
standalone utility to deal with that and the dpkg-reconfigure above
calls it as needed. 'shadowconfig on' and 'shadowconfig off'
> | 2. hwconf - shows what hardware is in place
>
> I don't think there is an equivalent. What functionality do you need
> out of this? The 'lspci' command will list the PCI devices. Other
> hardware info, as seen by the kernel, can be found in /proc. There
> are probably other sources of information, depending on what you are
> looking for.
Note that lspci as a non-root only shows you some things. To get all
of the information which is more equivalent to hwconf you need to run
as root and supply -v.
sudo lspci -v
> | 4. syslog - syslog configuration including syslogd options
>
> /etc/syslog.conf
RH /etc/sysconfig/syslog file sets options. Things like this.
SYSLOGD_OPTIONS="-m 0"
This is more similar to /etc/default/* on Debian. Normally you would
look there. But for syslogd itself there is not any equivalent
/etc/default/syslog file. Probably there should be. Bug 98631
documents this at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=98631
So for syslog you will need to edit the /etc/init.d/sysklogd startup
script and change the 'SYSLOGD=""' options at the top of that file.
Bob
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