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diff --git a/doc/pam_source.sgml b/doc/pam_source.sgml index 7ed1e131..f2545e6f 100644 --- a/doc/pam_source.sgml +++ b/doc/pam_source.sgml @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ DAMAGE. <title>The Linux-PAM System Administrators' Guide <author>Andrew G. Morgan, <tt>morgan@kernel.org</tt> -<date>DRAFT v0.76 2002/05/26 +<date>DRAFT v0.76 2002/05/27 <abstract> This manual documents what a system-administrator needs to know about the <bf>Linux-PAM</bf> library. It covers the correct syntax of the @@ -115,9 +115,8 @@ directories. Where they have been specified, the conventions we adopt here for locating these files are those of the relevant RFC (RFC-86.0, see <ref id="see-also-sec" name="bibliography">). If you are using a distribution of Linux (or some other operating system) that supports -PAM but chooses to distribute these files in a diferent way (Red Hat -is one such distribution), you should be careful when copying examples -directly from the text. +PAM but chooses to distribute these files in a diferent way you should +be careful when copying examples directly from the text. <p> As an example of the above, where it is explicit, the text assumes @@ -546,6 +545,21 @@ by the reactions of individual modules. </itemize> <p> +Each of the four keywords: <tt/required/; <tt/requisite/; +<tt/sufficient/; and <tt/optional/, have an equivalent expression in +terms of the <tt/[...]/ syntax. They are as follows: +<itemize> +<item><tt/required/ is equivalent to +<tt/[success=ok new_authtok_reqd=ok ignore=ignore default=bad]/ +<item><tt/requisite/ is equivalent to +<tt/[success=ok new_authtok_reqd=ok ignore=ignore default=die]/ +<item><tt/sufficient/ is equivalent to +<tt/[success=done new_authtok_reqd=done default=ignore]/ +<item><tt/optional/ is equivalent to +<tt/[success=ok new_authtok_reqd=ok default=ignore]/ +</itemize> + +<p> Just to get a feel for the power of this new syntax, here is a taste of what you can do with it. With <bf/Linux-PAM-0.63/, the notion of client plug-in agents was introduced. This is something that makes it |