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authorSam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>2023-09-11 14:10:02 -0600
committerSam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>2023-09-11 14:10:02 -0600
commit42408448b00a7a2150b5853dc4f63296b6827e0e (patch)
treef2d801e728b41563b77ebe89a3d560319ff37d31 /doc/man/pam.conf-dir.xml
parentb99a4f53dcf4725e4b3b861fd8a28c0156a8a147 (diff)
parente9aa2ef52a423a3a33299bf7e8715eb5bd76ea67 (diff)
Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/1.5.3'
Update to upstream version '1.5.3' with Debian dir 6b9d9dfb8a4ca02d4557097ee59960e72a6a4a29
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diff --git a/doc/man/pam.conf-dir.xml b/doc/man/pam.conf-dir.xml
index 8446cf35..57b2991c 100644
--- a/doc/man/pam.conf-dir.xml
+++ b/doc/man/pam.conf-dir.xml
@@ -1,18 +1,25 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE section PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
- "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
-<section id='pam.conf-dir'>
+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:id="pam.conf-dir">
<para>
More flexible than the single configuration file is it to
- configure libpam via the contents of the
- <filename>/etc/pam.d/</filename> directory. In this case the
- directory is filled with files each of which has a filename
+ configure libpam via the contents of
+ <filename>pam.d</filename> directories. In this case the
+ directories are filled with files each of which has a filename
equal to a service-name (in lower-case): it is the personal
configuration file for the named service.
</para>
<para>
- The syntax of each file in /etc/pam.d/ is similar to that of the
+ Vendor-supplied PAM configuration files might be installed in
+ the system directory <filename>/usr/lib/pam.d/</filename> or
+ a configurable vendor specific directory instead
+ of the machine configuration directory <filename>/etc/pam.d/</filename>.
+ If no machine configuration file is found, the vendor-supplied file
+ is used. All files in <filename>/etc/pam.d/</filename> override
+ files with the same name in other directories.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The syntax of each file in pam.d is similar to that of the
<filename>/etc/pam.conf</filename> file and is made up of lines
of the following form:
</para>
@@ -25,6 +32,6 @@ type control module-path module-arguments
The only difference being that the service-name is not present. The
service-name is of course the name of the given configuration file.
For example, <filename>/etc/pam.d/login</filename> contains the
- configuration for the <emphasis remap='B'>login</emphasis> service.
+ configuration for the <emphasis remap="B">login</emphasis> service.
</para>
</section>