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authorSteve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com>2019-01-03 21:22:21 -0800
committerSteve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com>2019-01-03 21:22:45 -0800
commit795badba7f95e737f979917859cd32c9bd47bcad (patch)
tree212a6a00baa11e9d0ca7bc27b12420d1dce6f07c /modules/pam_unix/pam_unix.8.xml
parentc55c14c5c6762139ec6695d84ea0e2e917da5264 (diff)
parentba315ae8effdcad591608c99452dad05c4cf20ab (diff)
New upstream version 1.1.8
Diffstat (limited to 'modules/pam_unix/pam_unix.8.xml')
-rw-r--r--modules/pam_unix/pam_unix.8.xml9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/modules/pam_unix/pam_unix.8.xml b/modules/pam_unix/pam_unix.8.xml
index c272e3ce..9ce084e3 100644
--- a/modules/pam_unix/pam_unix.8.xml
+++ b/modules/pam_unix/pam_unix.8.xml
@@ -81,7 +81,9 @@
<para>
The password component of this module performs the task of updating
- the user's password.
+ the user's password. The default encryption hash is taken from the
+ <emphasis remap='B'>ENCRYPT_METHOD</emphasis> variable from
+ <emphasis>/etc/login.defs</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
@@ -223,6 +225,8 @@
user are saved in <filename>/etc/security/opasswd</filename>
in order to force password change history and keep the user
from alternating between the same password too frequently.
+ Instead of this option the <command>pam_pwhistory</command>
+ module should be used.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -391,6 +395,9 @@ session required pam_unix.so
<title>SEE ALSO</title>
<para>
<citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>login.defs</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>pam.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
</citerefentry>,
<citerefentry>