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authorikerexxe <ipedrosa@redhat.com>2020-10-14 11:30:00 +0200
committerTomáš Mráz <tmraz@redhat.com>2020-10-14 12:31:25 +0200
commitad8b6feaf8ea989368676acaea905998a807986e (patch)
tree0e91f989df24936d47cda440b8d2dfc7bbef46d5
parent16cebfeb30a8bd7c7dc269190a054c25b0f8d044 (diff)
downloadlinux-pam-git-ad8b6feaf8ea989368676acaea905998a807986e.tar.gz
pam_motd: document file filtering
modules/pam_motd/pam_motd.8.xml: document file filtering of motd messages. NEWS: annotate change.
-rw-r--r--NEWS3
-rw-r--r--modules/pam_motd/pam_motd.8.xml5
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e8c0de87..c3b338e2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
Linux-PAM NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
+Release 1.5.0
+* pam_motd: read motd files with target user credentials skipping unreadable ones.
+
Release 1.4.0
* Multiple minor bug fixes and documentation improvements
* Fixed grammar of messages printed via pam_prompt
diff --git a/modules/pam_motd/pam_motd.8.xml b/modules/pam_motd/pam_motd.8.xml
index b533530b..0afd4c99 100644
--- a/modules/pam_motd/pam_motd.8.xml
+++ b/modules/pam_motd/pam_motd.8.xml
@@ -64,8 +64,9 @@
override files with the same name in <filename>/usr/lib/motd.d/</filename>.
</para>
<para>
- Files the in the directories listed above are displayed in
- lexicographic order by name.
+ Files in the directories listed above are displayed in lexicographic
+ order by name. Moreover, the files are filtered by reading them with the
+ credentials of the target user authenticating on the system.
</para>
<para>
To silence a message,