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CONSERVER.PASSWD(5)		   conserver		   CONSERVER.PASSWD(5)

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 op-
       tional 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	check-
	      ing 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  con-
			       server 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 lo-
			       gin 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 lan-
       guage that supports it.

conserver-8.2.7			  2022/07/07		   CONSERVER.PASSWD(5)

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