What modifications are made to the PAM configuration files during a vastool join. (4271886)

What modifications are made to the PAM configuration files during a vastool join.

Depending on the operating system there may be some differences between configuration changes made to pam files.

To find the precise differences for a particular operating system do the following

1. Unjoin the server form the domain

# /opt/quest/bin vastool –u unjoin

1. Create a directory in the /tmp directory and copy the pam files to it.

# mkdir /tmp/pamfiles.novas

# cp /etc/pam.d/* /tmp/pamfiles.novas

1. Rejoin the host to the domain

# /opt/quest/bin vastool –u join

Join options should be added as required.

1. Compare the files in /tmp/pamfiles.novas/ to the files in /etc/pam.d/ to see what the differences are. These can be sent to a text file for analysis.

# diff /tmp/pamfiles.novas/ /etc/pam.d/ > /tmp/pam.diff

Click on the following link to download a sample ‘pam.diff’ file created on a CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core).

Different operating systems may have slightly different configurations.