NAME
pam-dotfile-gen - change password for libpam-dotfile
SYNOPSIS
pam-dotfile-gen >> ~/.pam-service
pam-dotfile-gen -a service
DESCRIPTION
pam-dotfile-gen is a utility to create a password for a particular
service, if your system administrator has set up authenication for that
service with libpam-dotfile.
To create or change your password, just enter pam-dotfile-gen -a
<service> and you will be prompted for the password. The password will
be written to ~/.pam-<service> in a hashed format. To add another
password to the same service repeat the command.
If called without any argument the tool will act as filter. Unencrypted
passwords are read from STDIN, are crypted and written to STDOUT. The
passwords are separated by newlines. Empty lines and lines beginning
with # are ignored and written in an untouched way to STDOUT.
The file format of the ~/.pam is rather simple. Every non-empty line
which does not begin with # is compared with the hashed password to be
checked. This allows you to specify free form comments for each
password with a simple text editor.
OPTIONS
-a service
Instead of acting as a filter read a single password from the
user and add it to the .pam-file for the specified service.
-C
Enable compatibility with pam_dotfile older than 0.6. Passwords
hashed with this enabled are created in a form compatible with
older release. You shouldn’t use this.
-h Show a terse usage summary.
AUTHOR
pam-dotfile was written by Lennart Poettering <mzcnzqbgsvyr (at)
0pointer (dot) de>. pam-dotfile is available at
http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/pam_dotfile/
COMMENTS
This man page was written using xmltoman (1) by Oliver Kurth.