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-rw-r--r--doc/pam_source.sgml2
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/modules/pam_userdb.sgml b/doc/modules/pam_userdb.sgml
index bdbf80b8..155a2668 100644
--- a/doc/modules/pam_userdb.sgml
+++ b/doc/modules/pam_userdb.sgml
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ what is contained in that database.
<tt/icase/;
<tt/dump/;
<tt/db=XXXX/;
+<tt/use_authtok/;
+<tt/unknown_ok/;
<tag><bf>Description:</bf></tag>
@@ -59,7 +61,7 @@ fields corresponding to the username keys are the passwords, in unencrypted form
so caution must be exercised over the access rights to the DB database itself..
The module will read the password from the user using the conversation mechanism. If
-you are using this module on top of another authetication module (like <tt/pam_pwdb/;)
+you are using this module on top of another authentication module (like <tt/pam_pwdb/;)
then you should tell that module to read the entered password from the PAM_AUTHTOK field, which is set by this module.
<p>
@@ -85,6 +87,18 @@ use the database found on pathname XXXX. Note that Berkeley DB usually adds the
needed filename extension for you, so you should use something like <tt>/etc/foodata</tt>
instead of <tt>/etc/foodata.db</tt>.
+<item> <tt/use_authtok/ -
+use the authentication token previously obtained by another module that did the
+conversation with the application. If this token can not be obtained then
+the module will try to converse again. This option can be used for stacking
+different modules that need to deal with the authentication tokens.
+
+<item>
+<tt/unknown_ok/ -
+do not return error when checking for a user that is not in the database.
+This can be used to stack more than one pam_userdb module that will check a
+username/password pair in more than a database.
+
</itemize>
<tag><bf>Examples/suggested usage:</bf></tag>
diff --git a/doc/pam_source.sgml b/doc/pam_source.sgml
index 2ea9a7c9..8e641032 100644
--- a/doc/pam_source.sgml
+++ b/doc/pam_source.sgml
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ that this enables.
be used, including RADIUS, NIS, NCP (which means that Novell
password databases can be used).
- o pppd has a PAMified version (available from RedHat) Now it is
+ o pppd has a PAMified version (available from Red Hat) Now it is
possible to use a series of databases to authenticate ppp users.
In addition to the normal Linux-based password databases (such
as /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow), you can use PAM modules to