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| author | http://schmonz.livejournal.com/ <http://schmonz.livejournal.com/@web> | 2008-07-30 15:09:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2008-07-30 15:09:44 -0400 |
| commit | bd5f94d2ac85d6fb5d60400345fe41b91f2d303c (patch) | |
| tree | 7efb256aef66fac33dc97b57a548a948f56993e1 /doc/plugins | |
| parent | 7b37c78ad895509a2517e019b954c9ff2bf71549 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/plugins/contrib/unixauth.mdwn | 2 |
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diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/unixauth.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/unixauth.mdwn index f7019b4b8..1917a242d 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/unixauth.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/unixauth.mdwn @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ This plugin authenticates users against the Unix user database. It presents a similar UI to [[plugins/passwordauth]], but simpler, as there's no need to be able to register or change one's password. -To authenticate, either [checkpassword](http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd.html) or [pwauth](http://www.unixpapa.com/pwauth/) must be installed and configured. `checkpassword` is strongly preferred. If your web server runs as an unprivileged user -- as it darn well should! -- then `checkpassword` needs to be setuid root. Other checkpassword implementations are available, notably [checkpassword-pam](http://checkpasswd-pam.sourceforge.net/). +To authenticate, either [checkpassword](http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd.html) or [pwauth](http://www.unixpapa.com/pwauth/) must be installed and configured. `checkpassword` is strongly preferred. If your web server runs as an unprivileged user -- as it darn well should! -- then `checkpassword` needs to be setuid root. (Or your ikiwiki CGI wrapper, I guess, but don't do that.) Other checkpassword implementations are available, notably [checkpassword-pam](http://checkpasswd-pam.sourceforge.net/). Config variables that affect the behavior of `unixauth`: |