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What should go in password-auth vs system-auth in RHEL6 and RHEL 7 ?

Solution Verified - Updated 2018-04-12T05:20:40+00:00 -

Issue

What should go in password-auth vs system-auth in RHEL6 and RHEL 7 ?
Changes made to /etc/pam.d/system-auth not honored for network services.
In RHEL5 we would configure it in /etc/pam.d/system-auth. However it seems that the way to go in RHEL6 is to add entry in /etc/pam.d/sshd. I got it working using the latter but I just wanted to make sure we ate using the vendor-recommended (best practice) settings.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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