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.