1CONSERVER.PASSWD(5)                conserver               CONSERVER.PASSWD(5)
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NAME

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

9       username:password
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DESCRIPTION

12       The  conserver.passwd file is the user authentication and authorization
13       file for conserver(8).  Upon each incoming client connection, conserver
14       opens  and  reads  the conserver.passwd file, so edits to the file take
15       effect immediately.  It reads only until the first username match.
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17       Blank lines and  comment  lines  (those  beginning  with  a  ``#''  and
18       optional  leading whitespace) are ignored.  Non-ignored lines beginning
19       with whitespace are considered  continuations  of  the  previous  line.
20       This  allows  you to span one logical line over many physical lines and
21       insert comments wherever appropriate.
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23       Each logical line consists of two colon-separated fields.  Leading  and
24       trailing white space in each field is ignored.
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26       username
27              the  login  name of the authorized user, or the string ``*any*''
28              to match any user.  This is compared against the  name  sent  by
29              the  console  client,  based either on the user's identity or on
30              the -l option.  Since conserver only  uses  the  first  username
31              match, a ``*any*'' entry will apply to any user without an entry
32              earlier in the file.
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34       password
35              the encrypted password, or the string ``*passwd*''  to  indicate
36              that  conserver should look up the user's password in the system
37              passwd (or shadow) database.  If PAM support  has  been  enabled
38              (--with-pam),  PAM  lookups  will  be done instead of passwd (or
39              shadow) lookups (you may need to edit  /etc/pam.conf  or  create
40              /etc/pam.d/conserver).   If this field is empty, password check‐
41              ing is bypassed for this user.
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EXAMPLE

44       mary:r71mXjfALB5Ak      Mary uses the password specified above; it does
45                               not  matter whether she has a login on the con‐
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48       fred:*passwd*           Fred may connect only with  his  regular  login
49                               password on the conserver host.
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51       bozo:*                  Bozo is only allowed to access a console if his
52                               password isn't used (since it's invalid)  which
53                               means he needs to come from a trusted host.
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55       *any*:*passwd*          Anyone  not  listed  above  uses  their regular
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SEE ALSO

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

62       There is currently no way provided by the conserver package to generate
63       the  encrypted  password  strings  besides copying them from the system
64       passwd database or running crypt(3) via C or perl or  some  other  lan‐
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69conserver-8.2.2                   2018/05/28               CONSERVER.PASSWD(5)