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author | Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> | 2019-01-22 14:54:11 -0800 |
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committer | Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> | 2019-01-22 14:54:11 -0800 |
commit | f00afb1ef201b2eef7f9ddbe5a0c6ca802cf49bb (patch) | |
tree | 402838c53047b0e21466a653ae88d86a8e4b7b65 /doc/man/PAM.8 | |
parent | 795badba7f95e737f979917859cd32c9bd47bcad (diff) | |
parent | 1cad9fb2a0d729c5b5e5aa7297c521df7d5a2d33 (diff) | |
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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 |