From d7c3e32076b97cf7e52d02808b5093a32b82685b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charl Botha Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 19:21:19 +0000 Subject: Integrated bigcrypt/crypt patch by Greg Norris. Getting ready for release 0.99. --- README | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 8962ae4..532f230 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ README for pam_pwdfile PAM module - Charl P. Botha -$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 . +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/ @@ -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 pam_pwdfile is available as a -debian package (libpam-pwdfile) from potato onwards. -- cgit v1.2.3