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| author | Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> | 2001-03-19 01:46:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> | 2001-03-19 01:46:41 +0000 |
| commit | 1eb81c19d5c4181242bf983ed0c640b652c2e415 (patch) | |
| tree | 28fb4175eb54277a067a4e3c61c847d7f623ca3c /doc/pam_source.sgml | |
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Relevant BUGIDs: 408961
Purpose of commit: documentation fixes
Commit summary:
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This checkin is courtesy of some fixes from Michel D'HOOGE.
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diff --git a/doc/pam_source.sgml b/doc/pam_source.sgml index 4e1369ce..d24a53a3 100644 --- a/doc/pam_source.sgml +++ b/doc/pam_source.sgml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ $Id$ - Copyright (c) Andrew G. Morgan 1996-9. All rights reserved. + Copyright (c) Andrew G. Morgan 1996-2001. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source (sgml) and binary (derived) forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ DAMAGE. <title>The Linux-PAM System Administrators' Guide <author>Andrew G. Morgan, <tt>morgan@kernel.org</tt> -<date>DRAFT v0.75 2001/02/07 +<date>DRAFT v0.75 2001/03/18 <abstract> This manual documents what a system-administrator needs to know about the <bf>Linux-PAM</bf> library. It covers the correct syntax of the @@ -140,10 +140,10 @@ command shell (<em>bash, tcsh, zsh, etc.</em>) running with the identity of the user. <p> -Traditinally, the former step is achieved by the <em/login/ +Traditionally, the former step is achieved by the <em/login/ application prompting the user for a password and then verifying that -it agrees with that located on the system; hence verifying that the -so far as the system is concerned the user is who they claim to be. +it agrees with that located on the system; hence verifying that +as far as the system is concerned the user is who they claim to be. This is the task that is delegated to <bf/Linux-PAM/. <p> @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ configured authentication method. The <bf/Linux-PAM/ library (in the center) consults the contents of the PAM configuration file and loads the modules that are appropriate for application-X. These modules fall into one of four management groups (lower-center) and are stacked in -the order they appear in the configuaration file. These modules, when +the order they appear in the configuration file. These modules, when called by <bf/Linux-PAM/, perform the various authentication tasks for the application. Textual information, required from/or offered to the user, can be exchanged through the use of the application-supplied @@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ next section. </descrip> <p> -Any line in (one of) the confiuration file(s), that is not formatted +Any line in (one of) the configuration file(s), that is not formatted correctly, will generally tend (erring on the side of caution) to make the authentication process fail. A corresponding error is written to the system log files with a call to <tt/syslog(3)/. |