from small one page howto to huge articles all in one place
 

search text in:





Poll
Which screen resolution do you use?










poll results

Last additions:
using iotop to find disk usage hogs

using iotop to find disk usage hogs

words:

887

views:

186387

userrating:

average rating: 1.7 (102 votes) (1=very good 6=terrible)


May 25th. 2007:
Words

486

Views

250363

why adblockers are bad


Workaround and fixes for the current Core Dump Handling vulnerability affected kernels

Workaround and fixes for the current Core Dump Handling vulnerability affected kernels

words:

161

views:

137545

userrating:

average rating: 1.4 (42 votes) (1=very good 6=terrible)


April, 26th. 2006:

Druckversion
You are here: manpages





PAM_USERDB

Section: Linux\-PAM Manual (8)
Updated: 04/01/2016
Index Return to Main Contents
 

NAME

pam_userdb - PAM module to authenticate against a db database  

SYNOPSIS

pam_userdb.so db=/path/database [debug] [crypt=[crypt|none]] [icase] [dump] [try_first_pass] [use_first_pass] [unknown_ok] [key_only]
 

DESCRIPTION

The pam_userdb module is used to verify a username/password pair against values stored in a Berkeley DB database. The database is indexed by the username, and the data fields corresponding to the username keys are the passwords.  

OPTIONS

crypt=[crypt|none]

Indicates whether encrypted or plaintext passwords are stored in the database. If it is crypt, passwords should be stored in the database in crypt(3) form. If none is selected, passwords should be stored in the database as plaintext.

db=/path/database

Use the /path/database database for performing lookup. There is no default; the module will return PAM_IGNORE if no database is provided. Note that the path to the database file should be specified without the .db suffix.

debug

Print debug information.

dump

Dump all the entries in the database to the log. Don't do this by default!

icase

Make the password verification to be case insensitive (ie when working with registration numbers and such). Only works with plaintext password storage.

try_first_pass

Use the authentication token previously obtained by another module that did the conversation with the application. If this token can not be obtained then the module will try to converse. This option can be used for stacking different modules that need to deal with the authentication tokens.

use_first_pass

Use the authentication token previously obtained by another module that did the conversation with the application. If this token can not be obtained then the module will fail. This option can be used for stacking different modules that need to deal with the authentication tokens.

unknown_ok

Do not return error when checking for a user that is not in the database. This can be used to stack more than one pam_userdb module that will check a username/password pair in more than a database.

key_only

The username and password are concatenated together in the database hash as 'username-password' with a random value. if the concatenation of the username and password with a dash in the middle returns any result, the user is valid. this is useful in cases where the username may not be unique but the username and password pair are.
 

MODULE TYPES PROVIDED

The auth and account module types are provided.  

RETURN VALUES

PAM_AUTH_ERR

Authentication failure.

PAM_AUTHTOK_RECOVERY_ERR

Authentication information cannot be recovered.

PAM_BUF_ERR

Memory buffer error.

PAM_CONV_ERR

Conversation failure.

PAM_SERVICE_ERR

Error in service module.

PAM_SUCCESS

Success.

PAM_USER_UNKNOWN

User not known to the underlying authentication module.
 

EXAMPLES

auth  sufficient pam_userdb.so icase db=/etc/dbtest
    
 

SEE ALSO

crypt(3), pam.conf(5), pam.d(5), pam(8)  

AUTHOR

pam_userdb was written by Cristian Gafton >gafton@redhat.com<.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
MODULE TYPES PROVIDED
RETURN VALUES
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR





Support us on Content Nation
rdf newsfeed | rss newsfeed | Atom newsfeed
- Powered by LeopardCMS - Running on Gentoo -
Copyright 2004-2020 Sascha Nitsch Unternehmensberatung GmbH
Valid XHTML1.1 : Valid CSS : buttonmaker
- Level Triple-A Conformance to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 -
- Copyright and legal notices -
Time to create this page: 14.6 ms