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[Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--force-confold and --force-confnew are options to dpkg that only
control whether dpkg conffile prompts are shown.  pam configuration
files are not conffiles, because conffiles are not a suitable mechanism
for managing files with multiple sources of configuration data.

The whiptail prompts are done through debconf, which means that a
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=none setting will give you the desired results for a
non-interactive upgrade.

** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1480902

Title:
  pam-auth-update ignores force-confdef and force-confold when
  configuring

Status in pam package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  When the libpam-systemd package is installed, the apt settings "force-
  confdef" and "force-confold" are ignored, so that any of the
  "/etc/pam.d/common-*" are modified, the whiptail menu is shown; this
  breaks unattended system upgrades.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: libpam-systemd 204-5ubuntu20.13
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-25.26~14.04.1-generic 3.19.8-ckt2
  Uname: Linux 3.19.0-25-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Mon Aug  3 14:20:58 2015
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-30 (3 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
  SourcePackage: systemd
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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