freebsd-dev/contrib/libpam/doc/modules/pam_userdb.sgml
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<sect1>The userdb module
<sect2>Synopsis
<p>
<descrip>
<tag><bf>Module Name:</bf></tag>
<tt/pam_userdb/
<tag><bf>Author:</bf></tag>
Cristian Gafton &lt;gafton@redhat.com&gt;
<tag><bf>Maintainer:</bf></tag>
Author.
<tag><bf>Management groups provided:</bf></tag>
authentication
<tag><bf>Cryptographically sensitive:</bf></tag>
<tag><bf>Security rating:</bf></tag>
<tag><bf>Clean code base:</bf></tag>
<tag><bf>System dependencies:</bf></tag>
Requires Berkeley DB.
<tag><bf>Network aware:</bf></tag>
</descrip>
<sect2>Overview of module
<p>
Look up users in a .db database and verify their password against
what is contained in that database.
<sect2>Authentication component
<p>
<descrip>
<tag><bf>Recognized arguments:</bf></tag>
<tt/debug/;
<tt/icase/;
<tt/dump/;
<tt/db=XXXX/;
<tag><bf>Description:</bf></tag>
This 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, in unencrypted form,
so caution must be exercised over the access rights to the DB database itself..
The module will read the password from the user using the conversation mechanism. If
you are using this module on top of another authetication module (like <tt/pam_pwdb/;)
then you should tell that module to read the entered password from the PAM_AUTHTOK field, which is set by this module.
<p>
The action of the module may be modified from this default by one or
more of the following flags in the <tt>/etc/pam.d/&lt;service&gt;</tt> file.
<itemize>
<item>
<tt/debug/ -
Supply more debugging information to <tt/syslog(3)/.
<item>
<tt/icase/ -
Perform the password comparisons case insensitive.
<item>
<tt/dump/ -
dump all the entries in the database to the log (eek,
don't do this by default!)
<item>
<tt/db=XXXX/ -
use the database found on pathname XXXX. Note that Berkeley DB usually adds the
needed filename extension for you, so you should use something like <tt>/etc/foodata</tt>
instead of <tt>/etc/foodata.db</tt>.
</itemize>
<tag><bf>Examples/suggested usage:</bf></tag>
This is a normal ftp configuration file (usually placed as <tt>/etc/pam.d/ftp</tt>
on most systems) that will accept for login users whose username/password pairs are
provided in the <tt>/tmp/dbtest.db</tt> file:
<tscreen>
<verb>
#%PAM-1.0
auth required pam_listfile.so item=user sense=deny file=/etc/ftpusers onerr=succeed
auth sufficient pam_userdb.so icase db=/tmp/dbtest
auth required pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok try_first_pass
auth required pam_shells.so
account required pam_pwdb.so
session required pam_pwdb.so
</verb>
</tscreen>
</descrip>
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