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| author | wiz <wiz> | 2003-05-22 14:36:06 +0000 |
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| committer | wiz <wiz> | 2003-05-22 14:36:06 +0000 |
| commit | 415eace8af1b26ab5661853cb0d14a4b603bdfbe (patch) | |
| tree | 56ad4fdba16dcd4ee0468c9e08a30d8e7ddb29a0 /security/PAM/DESCR | |
| parent | 5efda297daec92b58533320c4d25c880c13d206a (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-415eace8af1b26ab5661853cb0d14a4b603bdfbe.tar.gz | |
Some improvements from Jeremy C. Reed via PR 20892:
- improved DESCRiption (and spelling fixed)
- more MASTER_SITES
- improved COMMENT
- variable for enabling --with-libcrack
- install limits.conf if under Linux
- make sure it doesn't have an interactive configuration
Diffstat (limited to 'security/PAM/DESCR')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/PAM/DESCR | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/security/PAM/DESCR b/security/PAM/DESCR index 02c857c5151..76a7e4a93d1 100644 --- a/security/PAM/DESCR +++ b/security/PAM/DESCR @@ -1,5 +1,13 @@ +PAM provides Pluggable Authentication Modules. It is a flexible, +dynamically configurable mechanism for authenticating users. + PAM provides a way to develop programs that are independent of authentication scheme. These programs need "authentication modules" to be -attatched to them at run-time in order to work. Which authentication module -is to be attatched is dependent upon the local system setup and is at the +attached to them at run-time in order to work. Which authentication module +is to be attached is dependent upon the local system setup and is at the discretion of the local system administrator. + +This package includes the dynamic and static libpam libraries, +developer files, and related programmer's man pages documenting +the functions. Over 25 PAM modules are included. This is Linux-PAM; +it works with Solaris, NetBSD, AIX, and other operating systems. |