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@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +README for pam_pwdfile PAM module - Charl P. Botha <cpbotha@ieee.org> +$Id: README,v 1.1.1.1 1999-08-05 13:09:07 cpbotha Exp $ +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Let's say that this is version 0.1 of pam_pwdfile. + +This pam module can be used for the authentication service only, in cases +where one wants to use a different set of passwords than those in the main +system password database. E.g. in our case we have an imap server running, +and prefer to keep the imap passwords different from the system passwords +for security reasons. + +The /etc/pam.d/imap looks like this: +#%PAM-1.0 +auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdfile.so pwdfile /etc/imap.passwd +account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so + +At the moment the only parameters that pam_pwdfile.so parses for is +"pwdfile", followed by the name of the ASCII password database, as in the +above example. + +The ASCII password file is simply a list of lines, each looking like this: +username:crypted_passwd[13] + +Note that we still expect users to have accounts in the usual place, as we +make use of the pam_pwdb.so module for the account service. This module is +just so that one can have multiple sets of passwords for different services, +e.g. with our /etc/imap.passwd. + +These files have been created for inclusion into the PAM source tree. |