From 321e3ed02c008662ec3bba54a6c4da247167a705 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nekral-guest Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 19:29:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * man/newusers.8.xml: PAM enabled version: describe how passwords are updated and how newusers behave in case of error. --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ man/newusers.8.xml | 13 +++++++------ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 8a445b5b1..405f0c703 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2009-05-11 Nicolas François + + * man/newusers.8.xml: PAM enabled version: describe how passwords + are updated and how newusers behave in case of error. + 2009-05-10 Nicolas François * NEWS, configure.in: New release will be 4.1.4. diff --git a/man/newusers.8.xml b/man/newusers.8.xml index daa02a9ec..a90c5bb77 100644 --- a/man/newusers.8.xml +++ b/man/newusers.8.xml @@ -211,6 +211,13 @@ databases. If an error occurs (except in the final writes to the databases), no changes are committed to the databases. + + During this first pass, users are created with a locked password + (and passwords are not changed for the users which are not created). + A second pass is used to update the passwords using PAM. Failures + to update a password are reported, but will not stop the other + password updates. + This command is intended to be used in a large system environment @@ -297,12 +304,6 @@ The input file must be protected since it contains unencrypted passwords. - - PAM is not used to update the passwords. - Only /etc/passwd and - /etc/shadow are updated, and the various checks - or options provided by PAM modules are not used. - -- 2.47.2