#68 Fedora 26 change: Authconfig Cleanup
Closed: Fixed Opened by pbokoc.

This issue tracks the release note for the following F26 Change:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AuthconfigCleanup

If you want to write this release note, then:

  1. Assign this issue to yourself
  2. Check the wiki page linked above, find out what the change is about
  3. Determine whether the change actually made it into the release or not[0]
  4. Write a draft release note using that information
  5. Get in touch with the contact person/people listed on the wiki page, either through IRC or e-mail, and ask them to check your draft for technical accuracy

Note that sometimes, the contact people are unresponsive. Try to do your best, but if nobody gets back to you, it's not the end of the world.

Once you're done with the above, make sure to either commit the relnote to an appropriate section of the Release Notes book, or, if you're not familiar with Git, DocBook, or whatever else, just add it to this issue as a comment and let pbokoc[1] know that you're done with this one and you'd like the note included. Be sure to do this at least one day before the final release (so the limit is July 10 according to the current schedule). Also make sure to do this even for relnotes that haven't been checked by the change owner.


[0] You can do that by asking the change owner listed on the wiki page; alternatively you can infer it by checking the tracker bug (linked in Wiki) in Bugzilla and looking at its status; see bug comments for details. Ask someone on the mailing list or on IRC if you're not sure.
[1] In #fedora-docs on FreeNode (UTC+1 timezone, online mostly during the day on weekdays), or pbokoc@redhat.com if you can't get a hold of me on IRC.


@tmraz can you provide a release note for this change?

Metadata Update from @immanetize:
- Issue assigned to immanetize

The graphical user interface (system-config-authentication) for configuring access to remote authentication and user identity services was dropped. The command line tool is still kept but long ago deprecated and obsolete functionality (WINS, HESIOD support) was removed from the tool.

Alright, I wrote something up using the above comment and the wiki page:

Authconfig cleanup

Obsolete and unmaintainable code was removed from authconfig. Notably:

  • The graphical interface (system-config-authentication) and the interactive text mode, which relied on old and unmaintained libraries (GTK+2 and Glade) have been removed from the distribution.
  • The command line tool, which has been deprecated previously, continues to be part of the distribution for legacy reasons. However, some deprecated and obsolete functionality such as support for WINS and HESIOD has been removed in this release.

The removal effort is happening because current modern environments support automatic configuration of remote user identities using Realmd and SSSD and do not require manual configuration through an interactive interface such as system-config-authentication. Some of the existing authconfig command line functionality is being preserved due to it still retaining some usefulness in certain environments, and to support the auth command in Kickstart. Removing parts of the code base that are no longer maintainable makes it easier to continue providing this functionality.

Metadata Update from @pbokoc:
- Issue assigned to pbokoc (was: immanetize)

This looks fine.

Perfect, thanks.

Metadata Update from @pbokoc:
- Issue close_status updated to: Fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

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