From 5dbeed06ae0b0f168158920c59dcfb0cc822dee6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charl Botha Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:57:51 +0000 Subject: Added note about contrib directory. --- README | 14 +++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 532f230..d5c82f9 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -37,10 +37,18 @@ username:crypted_passwd[34] in the case of MD5 crypted passwords. The latter is thanks to Warwick Duncan . 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/ +NOTES: +----- -Note that we still expect users to have accounts in the usual place, as we +* Also have a look at the files in the contrib subdirectory. + Especially if you're having trouble building paw_pwdfile, the + Makefile.standalone could be your new friend. + +* Warwick has also written a utility for managing the password files that +pam_pwdfile uses. The website has disappeared, but I've mirrored the +source code here: http://cpbotha.net/files/mirror/chpwdfile-0.24.tar.gz + +* 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, e.g. with our /etc/imap.passwd. It is however possible with certain -- cgit v1.2.3