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authorCharl Botha <cpbotha@cpbotha.net>2000-11-08 00:44:19 +0000
committerCharl Botha <cpbotha@cpbotha.net>2000-11-08 00:44:19 +0000
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Integrated MD5 patch by warwick@chemeng.uct.ac.za.
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README for pam_pwdfile PAM module - Charl P. Botha <cpbotha@ieee.org>
-$Id: README,v 1.2 2000-05-22 20:55:34 cpbotha Exp $
+$Id: README,v 1.3 2000-11-08 00:44:19 cpbotha Exp $
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-This is version 0.2 of pam_pwdfile.
+This is version 0.5 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
@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ Example:
auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdfile.so pwdfile /etc/blah.passwd flock
The ASCII password file is simply a list of lines, each looking like this:
-username:crypted_passwd[13]
+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>.
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