For the next FESCo meeting to review:
Replace authconfig with authselect and make authselect a default tool to configure PAM and nsswitch.conf. A compatibility tool will help with transition period from authconfig to authselect.
Authselect is a tool to select system authentication and identity sources from a list of supported profiles and it is available to users since Fedora 27. Authselect is designed to be a replacement for authconfig but it takes a different approach to configure the system. Instead of letting the administrator build the pam stack with a tool (which may potentially end up with a broken configuration), it ships several tested stacks (profiles) that solve primary supported use cases and are well tested and supported. At the same time, some obsolete features of authconfig are not supported by authselect. Additionally, authselect is written in C and has a small footprint which allows it to be also part of minimal installations.
Metadata Update from @jkurik: - Issue tagged with: meeting
#agreed APPROVE - F28 System Wide Change: Make authselect default tool instead of authconfig (+1:6, -1:0, +0:0)
Metadata Update from @maxamillion: - Issue untagged with: meeting - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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