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Diffstat (limited to 'security/pam-pwauth_suid/DESCR')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/pam-pwauth_suid/DESCR | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/security/pam-pwauth_suid/DESCR b/security/pam-pwauth_suid/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..8d63a911893 --- /dev/null +++ b/security/pam-pwauth_suid/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The pam_pwauth_suid authentication module uses a setuid program +to verify a password against the encrypted password in the +database used by the system. This way, an unprivileged user can +verify his own passsword stored in a shadow password database. +There might be some risk that the communication between the +invoking program and the setuid program is logged, or for abuse +for dictionary attacks. |