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author | Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> | 2019-01-22 15:01:39 -0800 |
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committer | Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> | 2019-01-22 15:02:03 -0800 |
commit | 5cd7bb4511a7c2b355a615f19a9eca193320aa3e (patch) | |
tree | ceb3e40947d1f0f4712f473e410494177d5763e0 /doc/man/PAM.8 | |
parent | cfa575497a113d8da1a2c79ef028b5c9648dc136 (diff) | |
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Merge upstream version 1.3.0
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diff --git a/doc/man/PAM.8 b/doc/man/PAM.8 index 71413095..e9cfba00 100644 --- a/doc/man/PAM.8 +++ b/doc/man/PAM.8 @@ -2,12 +2,12 @@ .\" Title: pam .\" Author: [FIXME: author] [see http://docbook.sf.net/el/author] .\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.78.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/> -.\" Date: 09/19/2013 +.\" Date: 04/01/2016 .\" Manual: Linux-PAM Manual .\" Source: Linux-PAM Manual .\" Language: English .\" -.TH "PAM" "8" "09/19/2013" "Linux-PAM Manual" "Linux-PAM Manual" +.TH "PAM" "8" "04/01/2016" "Linux-PAM Manual" "Linux-PAM Manual" .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * Define some portability stuff .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -51,6 +51,14 @@ directory\&. The presence of this directory will cause to \fIignore\fR/etc/pam\&.conf\&. .PP +Vendor\-supplied PAM configuration files might be installed in the system directory +/usr/lib/pam\&.d/ +instead of the machine configuration directory +/etc/pam\&.d/\&. If no machine configuration file is found, the vendor\-supplied file is used\&. All files in +/etc/pam\&.d/ +override files with the same name in +/usr/lib/pam\&.d/\&. +.PP From the point of view of the system administrator, for whom this manual is provided, it is not of primary importance to understand the internal behavior of the \fBLinux\-PAM\fR library\&. The important point to recognize is that the configuration file(s) @@ -103,6 +111,15 @@ configuration directory\&. Generally, if this directory is present, the /etc/pam\&.conf file is ignored\&. .RE +.PP +/usr/lib/pam\&.d +.RS 4 +the +\fBLinux\-PAM\fR +vendor configuration directory\&. Files in +/etc/pam\&.d +override files with the same name in this directory\&. +.RE .SH "ERRORS" .PP Typically errors generated by the |