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| author | jbranso@dismail.de <jbranso@dismail.de> | 2024-10-16 19:30:19 -0400 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2024-11-12 00:28:11 +0100 |
| commit | 71edca069981565c4c1d5844bcbcd8f39558ca00 (patch) | |
| tree | 3df62db4da52b731168716fdd264116bcb56401f /hurd/translator | |
| parent | aa3cacbf922863cb5833ee64f632dd3e4fc947f4 (diff) | |
add translator/password page
* hurd/translator.mdwn: add a link to password page
* hurd/translator/password.mdwn: new file. I barely describe the
password server. Even after reading what I wrote, I still don't
really know what the password server does.
Message-ID: <20241016233039.17856-3-jbranso@dismail.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'hurd/translator')
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/translator/password.mdwn | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/translator/password.mdwn b/hurd/translator/password.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9a60b94c --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/translator/password.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2024 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag stable_URL]] + +The password server (`/servers/password`) runs as root and hands out +authorization tags after receiving the correct password. The ids +corresponding to the authentication port match the unix user and group +ids. + +Support for shadow passwords is implemented here. Several utilities +make use of this server, so they don't need to be setuid root. |