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Diffstat (limited to 'modules/pam_unix/README')
-rw-r--r-- | modules/pam_unix/README | 24 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/modules/pam_unix/README b/modules/pam_unix/README index fb2efab4..cc4b49a1 100644 --- a/modules/pam_unix/README +++ 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). |