rodsmith@nessus.rodsbooks.com (Rod Smith) writes:


Thanks. Learn something new every day.


>In article <e4lju5$b6f$2@nntp.itservices.ubc.ca>,
> Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca> writes:
>>
>> I have never seen the requisite command. And have not seen it looking
>> through the pam documentation.

>From the pam.conf man page:

>: For the simple (historical) syntax valid control values are: requisite
>: - failure of such a PAM results in the immediate termination of the
>: authentication process; required - failure of such a PAM will ulti-
>: mately lead to the PAM-API returning failure but only after the remain-
>: ing stacked modules (for this service and type) have been invoked; suf-
>: ficient - success of such a module is enough to satisfy the authentica-
>: tion requirements of the stack of modules (if a prior required module
>: has failed the success of this one is ignored); optional - the success
>: or failure of this module is only important if it is the only module in
>: the stack associated with this service+type.

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