Changeset eb2eccc

Timestamp:

01/27/2007 05:08:50 AM (17 years ago)

Author:

DJ Lucas <dj@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc1, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/inkscape-core-mods, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/python-mods, qt5new, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

4c31e6de

Parents:

2357981

Message:

Added /etc/pam.d directory to shadow instructions

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@6471 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• postlfs/security/shadow.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -46 +46 @@
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
+          <para>[dj] - Modified Linux-PAM configuration in the Shadow
+          instructions.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
           <para>[dj] - Updated to vsftpd-2.0.5.</para>
         </listitem>

postlfs/security/shadow.xml

@@ -191 +191 @@
 
     <note>
-      <para>The rest of the page is devoted to configuring
+      <para>The rest of this page is devoted to configuring
       <application>Shadow</application> to work properly with
       <application>Linux-PAM</application>. If you do not have
@@ -302 +302 @@
         <title>Configuring the /etc/pam.d/ Files</title>
 
-        <para>Add the following <application>Linux-PAM</application> configuration
-        files to <filename class="directory">/etc/pam.d/</filename> (or add them
-        to <filename>/etc/pam.conf</filename> with the additional field for
-        the program). Issue the commands as the
-        <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
+        <para>As mentioned previously, in the 
+        <application>Linux-PAM</application> instructions, 
+        <application>Linux-PAM</application> has two supported methods for 
+        configuration.  The commands below assume that you've chosen to use 
+        a directory based configuration, where each program has it's own 
+        configuration file.  You can optionally use a single
+        <filename>/etc/pam.conf</filename> confgiuration file by using the 
+        text from the files below, and supplying the program name as an 
+        additional first field for each line.</para>
+
+        <para>As the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user,
+        create the <filename class="directory">/etc/pam.d</filename>
+        directory with the following command:</para>
+
+        <screen role="root"><userinput>install -d -m644 /etc/pam.d</userinput></screen>
+
+        <para>While still the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> 
+        user, add the following <application>Linux-PAM</application> 
+        configuration files to the
+        <filename class="directory">/etc/pam.d/</filename> directory (or 
+        add the contents to the <filename>/etc/pam.conf</filename> file) with 
+        the following commands:</para>
 
       </sect4>