From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 98AFC1382C5 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 17:35:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB196E09A4; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 17:35:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B3BCFE09A4 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 17:35:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oystercatcher.gentoo.org (oystercatcher.gentoo.org [148.251.78.52]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B17D4335D2E for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 17:35:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by oystercatcher.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CDB1646 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 17:35:28 +0000 (UTC) From: "Ulrich Müller" To: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Reply-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, "Ulrich Müller" Message-ID: <1617816495.99d7d8ac6d177e0d13282ebf43887ae36a2c4452.ulm@gentoo> Subject: [gentoo-commits] proj/devmanual:master commit in: tasks-reference/pam/ X-VCS-Repository: proj/devmanual X-VCS-Files: tasks-reference/pam/text.xml X-VCS-Directories: tasks-reference/pam/ X-VCS-Committer: ulm X-VCS-Committer-Name: Ulrich Müller X-VCS-Revision: 99d7d8ac6d177e0d13282ebf43887ae36a2c4452 X-VCS-Branch: master Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 17:35:28 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply X-Archives-Salt: a832c855-4391-450d-b6a8-c44866531a72 X-Archives-Hash: 045556d59b46ce7b1c09b7b546990f8c commit: 99d7d8ac6d177e0d13282ebf43887ae36a2c4452 Author: Sam James gentoo org> AuthorDate: Sun Mar 21 04:07:03 2021 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller gentoo org> CommitDate: Wed Apr 7 17:28:15 2021 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/devmanual.git/commit/?id=99d7d8ac tasks-reference/pam: slight grammar tweak Signed-off-by: Sam James gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller gentoo.org> tasks-reference/pam/text.xml | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tasks-reference/pam/text.xml b/tasks-reference/pam/text.xml index 62c8ec0..5cdf6ba 100644 --- a/tasks-reference/pam/text.xml +++ b/tasks-reference/pam/text.xml @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@

PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a mechanism which allows different applications to authenticate using various specified parameters, using for -example a passwd/shadow file, a Kerberos server, an LDAP server or an a NT +example a passwd/shadow file, a Kerberos server, an LDAP server, or an NT Domain server (using Samba).

@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ The statement is composed of 3 or 4 tokens:

There are also other modules which can be used for more complex authentication -against a database (mysql or postgresql), against an LDAP directory or against +against a database (mysql or postgresql), against an LDAP directory, or against an NT domain (using samba). This is useful on thin or fat clients where the users have an unique login for all the machines. Another place where this is useful is a cluster of servers which needs to authenticate against a single