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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2022-07-11 15:12:24 +0200 |
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| committer | Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2022-07-11 22:03:58 +0200 |
| commit | 90bc309aa2c1430941f4c50f73e681ab3e488bd3 (patch) | |
| tree | 04adb0ee826d42c02b664337e368958b2aa90b90 /man/pam_systemd_home.xml | |
| parent | Merge pull request #23969 from yuwata/test-network (diff) | |
| download | systemd-90bc309aa2c1430941f4c50f73e681ab3e488bd3.tar.xz systemd-90bc309aa2c1430941f4c50f73e681ab3e488bd3.zip | |
man: explain why pam_systemd_home wants to be in all four stacks
Suggested here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2085485#c5
Diffstat (limited to 'man/pam_systemd_home.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/pam_systemd_home.xml | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/pam_systemd_home.xml b/man/pam_systemd_home.xml index 906d1c1516..93153b57aa 100644 --- a/man/pam_systemd_home.xml +++ b/man/pam_systemd_home.xml @@ -93,8 +93,13 @@ <refsect1> <title>Module Types Provided</title> - <para>The module provides all four management operations: <option>auth</option>, <option>account</option>, - <option>session</option>, <option>password</option>.</para> + <para>The module implements all four PAM operations: <option>auth</option> (reason: when per-user + disk encryption is used, the disk encryption key is derived from the authentication credential supplied + at login time), <option>account</option> (reason: <filename>systemd-homed.service</filename> account + validity may be configured in more detail than in the traditional Linux user database, and thus needs to + be verified separately), <option>session</option> (user sessions must be tracked, in order to implement + automatic release when the last session of a managed user is gone), <option>password</option> (user + passwords may be changed through PAM).</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> |