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author | Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com> | 2019-01-03 12:44:11 -0800 |
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committer | Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com> | 2019-01-03 12:44:11 -0800 |
commit | efd31890b5ed496a5a00c08a262da240e66a4ddc (patch) | |
tree | 22a7aab22b3a491bb58df250d7d6409e0c160bcc /modules/pam_env/README | |
parent | 067affee9267fa0d1c21835182ba639ba33e820f (diff) |
New upstream version 0.76
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diff --git a/modules/pam_env/README b/modules/pam_env/README deleted file mode 100644 index 04df323b..00000000 --- a/modules/pam_env/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,72 +0,0 @@ -# $Date$ -# $Author$ -# $Id$ -# -# This is the configuration file for pam_env, a PAM module to load in -# a configurable list of environment variables for a -# -# The original idea for this came from Andrew G. Morgan ... -#<quote> -# Mmm. Perhaps you might like to write a pam_env module that reads a -# default environment from a file? I can see that as REALLY -# useful... Note it would be an "auth" module that returns PAM_IGNORE -# for the auth part and sets the environment returning PAM_SUCCESS in -# the setcred function... -#</quote> -# -# What I wanted was the REMOTEHOST variable set, purely for selfish -# reasons, and AGM didn't want it added to the SimpleApps login -# program (which is where I added the patch). So, my first concern is -# that variable, from there there are numerous others that might/would -# be useful to be set: NNTPSERVER, LESS, PATH, PAGER, MANPAGER ..... -# -# Of course, these are a different kind of variable than REMOTEHOST in -# that they are things that are likely to be configured by -# administrators rather than set by logging in, how to treat them both -# in the same config file? -# -# Here is my idea: -# -# Each line starts with the variable name, there are then two possible -# options for each variable DEFAULT and OVERRIDE. -# DEFAULT allows and administrator to set the value of the -# variable to some default value, if none is supplied then the empty -# string is assumed. The OVERRIDE option tells pam_env that it should -# enter in its value (overriding the default value) if there is one -# to use. OVERRIDE is not used, "" is assumed and no override will be -# done. -# -# VARIABLE [DEFAULT=[value]] [OVERRIDE=[value]] -# -# (Possibly non-existent) environment variables may be used in values -# using the ${string} syntax and (possibly non-existent) PAM_ITEMs may -# be used in values using the @{string} syntax. Both the $ and @ -# characters can be backslash escaped to be used as literal values -# values can be delimited with "", escaped " not supported. -# -# -# First, some special variables -# -# Set the REMOTEHOST variable for any hosts that are remote, default -# to "localhost" rather than not being set at all -REMOTEHOST DEFAULT=localhost OVERRIDE=@{PAM_RHOST} -# -# Set the DISPLAY variable if it seems reasonable -DISPLAY DEFAULT=${REMOTEHOST}:0.0 OVERRIDE=${DISPLAY} -# -# -# Now some simple variables -# -PAGER DEFAULT=less -MANPAGER DEFAULT=less -LESS DEFAULT="M q e h15 z23 b80" -NNTPSERVER DEFAULT=localhost -PATH DEFAULT=${HOME}/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin\ -:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin/X11:/usr/bin/X11 -# -# silly examples of escaped variables, just to show how they work. -# -DOLLAR DEFAULT=\$ -DOLLARDOLLAR DEFAULT= OVERRIDE=\$${DOLLAR} -DOLLARPLUS DEFAULT=\${REMOTEHOST}${REMOTEHOST} -ATSIGN DEFAULT="" OVERRIDE=\@ |