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@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ README for pam_pwdfile PAM module - Charl P. Botha <cpbotha@ieee.org> -$Id: README,v 1.11 2002-06-10 21:51:04 cpbotha Exp $ +$Id: README,v 1.12 2003-12-20 19:21:19 cpbotha Exp $ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -This is version 0.98 of pam_pwdfile. +This is version 0.99 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 @@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ 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 -latter is thanks to Warwick Duncan <warwick@chemeng.uct.ac.za>. +latter is thanks to Warwick Duncan <warwick@chemeng.uct.ac.za>. pam_pwdfile +also handles bigcrypt passwords. Warwick has also written a utility for managing the password files that pam_pwdfile uses. Please see: http://eclipse.che.uct.ac.za/chpwdfile/ @@ -45,6 +46,3 @@ just so that one can have multiple sets of passwords for different services, 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. - -Thanks to Michael-John Turner <mj@debian.org> pam_pwdfile is available as a -debian package (libpam-pwdfile) from potato onwards. |