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| author | Jan Rekorajski <baggins@sith.mimuw.edu.pl> | 2003-09-25 17:49:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Jan Rekorajski <baggins@sith.mimuw.edu.pl> | 2003-09-25 17:49:29 +0000 |
| commit | 901333def6c893f5decdfd62178c6654915ae7fa (patch) | |
| tree | ded312f1c3eae88bd3f51f0b378351d762770f83 /doc/pam_source.sgml | |
| parent | 8e75c66582868ef647aa80f3d36c0985e0b394b8 (diff) | |
Relevant BUGIDs: 812567
Purpose of commit: new feature
Commit summary:
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Document new "include" directive for pam config file syntax.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/pam_source.sgml')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/pam_source.sgml | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/pam_source.sgml b/doc/pam_source.sgml index 674404b4..2ea9a7c9 100644 --- a/doc/pam_source.sgml +++ b/doc/pam_source.sgml @@ -437,8 +437,8 @@ with one of two syntaxes. The simpler (and historical) syntax for the control-flag is a single keyword defined to indicate the severity of concern associated with the success or failure of a specific module. There are four such -keywords: <tt/required/, <tt/requisite/, <tt/sufficient/ and -<tt/optional/. +keywords: <tt/required/, <tt/requisite/, <tt/sufficient/, +<tt/optional/ and <tt/include/. <p> The Linux-PAM library interprets these keywords in the following @@ -481,6 +481,12 @@ determine the nature of the response to the application. One example of this latter case, is when the other modules return something like <tt/PAM_IGNORE/. +<item> <tt/include/; this tells PAM to include all lines of given type +from the configuration file specified as an argument to this control. +The whole idea is to create few "systemwide" pam configs and include +parts of them in application pam configs. + + </itemize> <p> |