Re: Avoid changing password

In article <e4lju5$b6f$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Unruh <unruh-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I have never seen the requisite command. And have not seen it looking
through the pam documentation.

From the pam.conf man page:

: For the simple (historical) syntax valid control values are: requisite
: - failure of such a PAM results in the immediate termination of the
: authentication process; required - failure of such a PAM will ulti-
: mately lead to the PAM-API returning failure but only after the remain-
: ing stacked modules (for this service and type) have been invoked; suf-
: ficient - success of such a module is enough to satisfy the authentica-
: tion requirements of the stack of modules (if a prior required module
: has failed the success of this one is ignored); optional - the success
: or failure of this module is only important if it is the only module in
: the stack associated with this service+type.

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