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authorSteve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com>2019-01-03 17:53:41 -0800
committerSteve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com>2019-01-03 18:17:08 -0800
commit212b52cf29c06cc209bc8ac0540dbab1acdf1464 (patch)
tree58da0bf39f5c4122e4a1b4da20fdeea52b97a671 /modules/pam_tally/README
parent9c52e721044e7501c3d4567b36d222dc7326224a (diff)
parent56c8282d128fb484ffc77dff73abf42229b291d3 (diff)
New upstream version 1.1.0
Diffstat (limited to 'modules/pam_tally/README')
-rw-r--r--modules/pam_tally/README18
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/modules/pam_tally/README b/modules/pam_tally/README
index d3bf5354..4174712a 100644
--- a/modules/pam_tally/README
+++ b/modules/pam_tally/README
@@ -25,12 +25,12 @@ OPTIONS
GLOBAL OPTIONS
- This can be used for auth and account services.
+ This can be used for auth and account module types.
onerr=[fail|succeed]
If something weird happens (like unable to open the file), return with
- PAM_SUCESS if onerr=succeed is given, else with the corresponding PAM
+ PAM_SUCCESS if onerr=succeed is given, else with the corresponding PAM
error code.
file=/path/to/counter
@@ -41,6 +41,14 @@ GLOBAL OPTIONS
Will log the user name into the system log if the user is not found.
+ silent
+
+ Don't print informative messages.
+
+ no_log_info
+
+ Don't log informative messages via syslog(3).
+
AUTH OPTIONS
Authentication phase first checks if user should be denied access and if
@@ -66,7 +74,7 @@ AUTH OPTIONS
magic_root
If the module is invoked by a user with uid=0 the counter is not
- incremented. The sys-admin should use this for user launched services,
+ incremented. The sysadmin should use this for user launched services,
like su, otherwise this argument should be omitted.
no_lock_time
@@ -93,14 +101,14 @@ AUTH OPTIONS
ACCOUNT OPTIONS
Account phase resets attempts counter if the user is not magic root. This
- phase can be used optionaly for services which don't call pam_setcred(3)
+ phase can be used optionally for services which don't call pam_setcred(3)
correctly or if the reset should be done regardless of the failure of the
account phase of other modules.
magic_root
If the module is invoked by a user with uid=0 the counter is not
- incremented. The sys-admin should use this for user launched services,
+ incremented. The sysadmin should use this for user launched services,
like su, otherwise this argument should be omitted.
no_reset