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README for pam_pwdfile PAM module - Charl P. Botha <cpbotha@ieee.org>
-$Id: README,v 1.7 2001-06-15 21:24:30 cpbotha Exp $
+$Id: README,v 1.8 2001-07-14 20:50:21 cpbotha Exp $
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-This is version 0.9 of pam_pwdfile.
+This is version 0.95 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
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ 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. Also, thanks to Jacob Schroeder <jacob@quantec.de>,
-pam_pwdfile now supports password file locking. Adding an "flock" parameter
+pam_pwdfile now supports password file locking. Adding a "flock" parameter
activates this feature: pam_pwdfile uses and honours flock() file locking on
the specified password file. Specifying "noflock" or no flock-type
parameter at all deactivates this feature.
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ parameter at all deactivates this feature.
Example:
auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdfile.so pwdfile /etc/blah.passwd flock
+Like other PAM modules, pam_pwdfile causes a 2 second delay when an
+incorrect password is supplied. This is too discourage brute force testing;
+however, this behaviour can be disabled with a "nodelay" parameter. Thanks
+to Ethan Benson for this patch.
+
The ASCII password file is simply a list of lines, each looking like this:
username:crypted_passwd[13] in the case of vanilla crypted passwords and
username:crypted_passwd[34] in the case of MD5 crypted passwords. The