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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_unix/README
parent9c52e721044e7501c3d4567b36d222dc7326224a (diff)
parent56c8282d128fb484ffc77dff73abf42229b291d3 (diff)
New upstream version 1.1.0
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+++ b/modules/pam_unix/README
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ use_authtok
When password changing enforce the module to set the new password to the
one provided by a previously stacked password module (this is used in the
- example of the stacking of the pam_cracklib module documented above).
+ example of the stacking of the pam_cracklib module documented below).
not_set_pass
@@ -117,24 +117,30 @@ bigcrypt
sha256
When a user changes their password next, encrypt it with the SHA256
- algorithm. If the SHA256 algorithm is not known to the libcrypt, fall back
- to MD5.
+ algorithm. If the SHA256 algorithm is not known to the crypt(3) function,
+ fall back to MD5.
sha512
When a user changes their password next, encrypt it with the SHA512
- algorithm. If the SHA512 algorithm is not known to the libcrypt, fall back
- to MD5.
+ algorithm. If the SHA512 algorithm is not known to the crypt(3) function,
+ fall back to MD5.
+
+blowfish
+
+ When a user changes their password next, encrypt it with the blowfish
+ algorithm. If the SHA512 algorithm is not known to the crypt(3) function,
+ fall back to MD5.
rounds=n
- Set the optional number of rounds of the SHA256 and SHA512 password hashing
- algorithms to n.
+ Set the optional number of rounds of the SHA256, SHA512 and blowfish
+ password hashing algorithms to n.
broken_shadow
- Ignore errors reading shadow inforation for users in the account management
- module.
+ Ignore errors reading shadow information for users in the account
+ management module.
Invalid arguments are logged with syslog(3).