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diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian new file mode 100644 index 0000000..34d3253 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/README.Debian @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +libpam-pwdfile for Debian +------------------------- + +This module allows one to authenticate users via an arbitrary password file. +The file follows the same format as /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, although only +the first two fields are required. In other words, each entry should start at +the beginning of a line and use the following format: + + [username]:[password-hash] + + +The following command provides a quick way to generate an appropriate hash, +which may then be copied into your password file. + + perl -e '$salt=q($1$).int(rand(1e8)); print "password: "; chomp($passwd=<STDIN>); print crypt($passwd,$salt),"\n"' + + +Here's an example of a working configuration... specifically, this is copied +from my /etc/pam.d/dovecot file. + + auth required pam_pwdfile.so pwdfile=/etc/dovecot/dovecot.passwd + @include common-account + @include common-session + + -- Greg Norris <adric@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:50:37 -0600 |