bionic (5) conserver.passwd.5.gz

Provided by: conserver-server_8.2.1-1_amd64 bug

NAME

       conserver.passwd - user access information for conserver(8)

SYNOPSIS

       username:password

DESCRIPTION

       The  conserver.passwd file is the user authentication and authorization file for conserver(8).  Upon each
       incoming client connection, conserver opens and reads the conserver.passwd file, so  edits  to  the  file
       take effect immediately.  It reads only until the first username match.

       Blank lines and comment lines (those beginning with a ``#'' and optional leading whitespace) are ignored.
       Non-ignored lines beginning with whitespace are considered continuations  of  the  previous  line.   This
       allows you to span one logical line over many physical lines and insert comments wherever appropriate.

       Each logical line consists of two colon-separated fields.  Leading and trailing white space in each field
       is ignored.

       username
              the login name of the authorized user, or the  string  ``*any*''  to  match  any  user.   This  is
              compared  against  the  name sent by the console client, based either on the user's identity or on
              the -l option.  Since conserver only uses the first username match, a ``*any*'' entry  will  apply
              to any user without an entry earlier in the file.

       password
              the  encrypted  password, or the string ``*passwd*'' to indicate that conserver should look up the
              user's password in the system passwd (or shadow)  database.   If  PAM  support  has  been  enabled
              (--with-pam), PAM lookups will be done instead of passwd (or shadow) lookups (you may need to edit
              /etc/pam.conf or create /etc/pam.d/conserver).  If this  field  is  empty,  password  checking  is
              bypassed for this user.

EXAMPLE

       mary:r71mXjfALB5Ak      Mary  uses  the  password  specified  above; it does not matter whether she has a
                               login on the conserver host.

       fred:*passwd*           Fred may connect only with his regular login password on the conserver host.

       bozo:*                  Bozo is only allowed to access a console if his password isn't used  (since  it's
                               invalid) which means he needs to come from a trusted host.

       *any*:*passwd*          Anyone not listed above uses their regular login and password.

SEE ALSO

       console(1), conserver.cf(5), conserver(8)

BUGS

       There  is  currently  no way provided by the conserver package to generate the encrypted password strings
       besides copying them from the system passwd database or running crypt(3) via C  or  perl  or  some  other
       language that supports it.