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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libpam/modules/pam_unix/pam_unix.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libpam/modules/pam_unix/pam_unix.8 | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libpam/modules/pam_unix/pam_unix.8 b/lib/libpam/modules/pam_unix/pam_unix.8 index eec0e0e..82354d5 100644 --- a/lib/libpam/modules/pam_unix/pam_unix.8 +++ b/lib/libpam/modules/pam_unix/pam_unix.8 @@ -105,6 +105,17 @@ sufficient. If the password database has no password for the entity being authenticated, then this option will forgo password prompting, and silently allow authentication to succeed. +.Pp +.Sy NOTE: +If +.Nm +is invoked by a process that does not have the privileges required to +access the password database (in most cases, this means root +privileges), the +.Cm nullok +option may cause +.Nm +to allow any user to log in with any password. .It Cm local_pass Use only the local password database, even if NIS is in use. This will cause an authentication failure if the system is configured |
