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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ README for pam_pwdfile PAM module - Charl P. Botha <cpbotha@ieee.org> -$Id: README,v 1.9 2002-05-11 14:42:35 cpbotha Exp $ +$Id: README,v 1.10 2002-05-11 14:46:23 cpbotha Exp $ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is version 0.97 of pam_pwdfile. @@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ username:crypted_passwd[13] in the case of vanilla crypted passwords and username:crypted_passwd[34] in the case of MD5 crypted passwords. The latter is thanks to Warwick Duncan <warwick@chemeng.uct.ac.za>. +Warwick has also written a utility for managing the password files that +pam_pwdfile uses. Please see: http://eclipse.che.uct.ac.za/chpwdfile/ + 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, @@ -43,6 +46,5 @@ e.g. with our /etc/imap.passwd. It is however possible with certain applications patched for pam (Cyrus IMAP server e.g.) that one does not need the users to exist in the system database. -These files have been created for inclusion into the PAM source tree. Thanks to Michael-John Turner <mj@debian.org> pam_pwdfile is available as a debian package (libpam-pwdfile) from potato onwards. |