Environment
Novell Identity Manager 3.6.1
Novell Identity Manager Driver - Core Fan Out
Novell Identity Manager Driver - Linux and UNIX - Fan Out
Situation
The documentation mentions a -pam-pass | -no-pam-pass option for the unattended install but only says it is to specify whether PAM should be auto-configured for password publishing. How does it do this?
Resolution
It's attempting to auto-configure PAM to redirect password changes. It effects how passwords are changed from the linux hosts. It writes to the PAM configuration files in this order:
/etc/pam.conf
/etc/pam.d/common-password
/etc/pam.d/passwd
/etc/pam.d/other
/etc/pam.conf
/etc/pam.d/common-password
/etc/pam.d/passwd
/etc/pam.d/other
If all those are missing, it stops with an error.