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| author | Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> | 2000-11-25 02:04:57 +0000 |
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| committer | Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> | 2000-11-25 02:04:57 +0000 |
| commit | ae282c2b26cfacb4e850d1258b851f125eca221a (patch) | |
| tree | 56c20718bc93478c76aa27864a0bd947244fe283 | |
| parent | b61a45a564a3ec5748440d7ebb9dec4d6a8f13d9 (diff) | |
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Relevant BUGIDs: 117240
Purpose of commit: documentation
Commit summary:
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Documentation for new accessconf= module argument
contributed by Meelis Roos.
| -rw-r--r-- | CHANGELOG | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/modules/pam_access.sgml | 21 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ Where you should replace XXXXX with a bug-id. 0.73: please submit patches for this section with actual code/doc patches! -* added accessconf=<filename> feature to pam_access - request from Aldrin Martoq (Bug 111927 - agmorgan) +* added accessconf=<filename> feature to pam_access - request from + Aldrin Martoq and Meelis Roos (Bugs 111927,117240 - agmorgan) * fix for pam_limit module not dealing with all limits Adam J. Richter (Bug 119554 - agmorgan) * comment fix describing fail_delay callback in _pam_types.h (Bug diff --git a/doc/modules/pam_access.sgml b/doc/modules/pam_access.sgml index e192d12e..d6f317bd 100644 --- a/doc/modules/pam_access.sgml +++ b/doc/modules/pam_access.sgml @@ -34,8 +34,10 @@ account <tag><bf>Clean code base:</bf></tag> -<tag><bf>System dependencies:</bf></tag> -Requires a configuration file <tt>/etc/security/access.conf</tt> +<tag><bf>System dependencies:</bf></tag> +Requires a configuration file. By default +<tt>/etc/security/access.conf</tt> is used but this can be overridden. + <tag><bf>Network aware:</bf></tag> Through <tt/PAM_TTY/ if set, otherwise attempts getting tty name of @@ -57,6 +59,8 @@ Provides logdaemon style login access control. <tag><bf>Recognized arguments:</bf></tag> +<tt>accessconf=<it>/path/to/file.conf</it></tt> + <tag><bf>Description:</bf></tag> This module provides logdaemon style login access control based on @@ -66,6 +70,18 @@ logins. Diagnostics are reported through <tt/syslog(3)/. Wietse Venema's <tt/login_access.c/ from <em/logdaemon-5.6/ is used with several changes by A. Nogin. +<p> +The behavior of this module can be modified with the following +arguments: +<itemize> + +<item><tt>accessconf=/path/to/file.conf</tt> - +indicate an alternative <em/access/ configuration file to override +the default. This can be useful when different services need different +access lists. + +</itemize> + <tag><bf>Examples/suggested usage:</bf></tag> Use of module is recommended, for example, on administrative machines @@ -90,4 +106,3 @@ A sample <tt>access.conf</tt> configuration file is included with the distribution. </descrip> - |