Section 5: file formats
pci.ids – list of known identifiers related to PCI devices Introduction Devices on the PCI bus are identified by a combination of a vendor ID (assigned by the PCI SIG) and device ID (assigned by the vendor). Both IDs are 16-bit integers and the device itself provides no translation to a human-readable string. In addition…
pcap-savefile – libpcap savefile format Description NOTE: applications and libraries should, if possible, use libpcap to read savefiles, rather than having their own code to read savefiles. If, in the future, a new file format is supported by libpcap, applications and libraries using libpcap to read savefiles will be able to read the new format…
pbm – portable bitmap file format Description The portable bitmap format is a lowest common denominator monochrome file format. It serves as the common language of a large family of bitmap conversion filters. Because the format pays no heed to efficiency, it is simple and general enough that one can easily develop programs to convert…
system-auth-ac, password-auth-ac, smartcard-auth-ac, fingerprint-auth-ac, postlogin-ac – Common configuration files for PAMified services written by authconfig(8) Synopsis /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac Description The purpose of this configuration file is to provide common configuration file for all applications and service daemons calling PAM library. The system-auth configuration file is included from all individual service configuration files with the help of…
passwdqc.conf – libpasswdqc configuration file Description libpasswdqc is a simple password strength checking library. In addition to checking regular passwords, it offers support for passphrases and can provide randomly generated ones. A configuration file may be used to override default libpasswdqc settings. Format A file consists of 0 or more lines of the following format:…
passwdqc.conf – libpasswdqc configuration file Description libpasswdqc is a simple password strength checking library. In addition to checking regular passwords, it offers support for passphrases and can provide randomly generated ones. A configuration file may be used to override default libpasswdqc settings. Format A file consists of 0 or more lines of the following format:…
passwd – the password file Description /etc/passwd contains one line for each user account, with seven fields delimited by colons (“:”). These fields are: • login name • optional encrypted password • numerical user ID • numerical group ID • user name or comment field • user home directory • optional user command interpreter If…
passwd.nntp – Passwords for connecting to remote NNTP servers Description The file pathetc/passwd.nntp contains host / name / password triplets for use when authenticating client programs to NNTP servers. This file is normally interpreted by NNTPsendpassword() in libinn(3). Blank lines and lines beginning with a number sign ("#") are ignored. All other lines should consist…
papersize – specify preferred paper size Synopsys /etc/papersize Description The papersize file is used to specify the preferred paper size to use by available commands and programs generating documents. The format of this file is extremely simple: whitespace and anything starting with `#’ is ignored, and the name of the paper is the first string…
papd.conf – Configuration file used by papd(8) to determine the configuration of printers used by the Netatalk printing daemon Description /etc/atalk//papd.conf is the configuration file used by papd to configure the printing services offered by netatalk. Please note that papd must be enabled in /etc/atalk//netatalk.conf for this to take any effect. papd shares the same…
pandoc_markdown – markdown syntax for pandoc(1) Description Pandoc understands an extended and slightly revised version of John Gruber’s markdown syntax. This document explains the syntax, noting differences from standard markdown. Except where noted, these differences can be suppressed by using the markdown_strict format instead of markdown. An extensions can be enabled by adding +EXTENSION to…
pam_winbind.conf – Configuration file of PAM module for Winbind Description This configuration file is part of the samba(7) suite. pam_winbind.conf is the configuration file for the pam_winbind PAM module. See pam_winbind(8) for further details. Synopsis The pam_winbind.conf configuration file is a classic ini-style configuration file. There is only one section (global) where various options are…
pam_winbind.conf – Configuration file of PAM module for Winbind Description This configuration file is part of the samba(7) suite. pam_winbind.conf is the configuration file for the pam_winbind PAM module. See pam_winbind(8) for further details. Synopsis The pam_winbind.conf configuration file is a classic ini-style configuration file. There is only one section (global) where various options are…
pam_mount.conf – Description of the pam_mount configuration file Overview The pam_mount configuration file defines soft defaults for commands pam_mount will be executing, the messages it will show, and which volumes to mount on login. Since pam_mount 0.18, the configuration file is written in XML so as to simplify the pam_mount code base while giving formatting…
pam_ldap – LDAP pluggable authentication module Description The pam_ldap module is a Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) which provides for authentication, authorization and password changing against LDAP servers. Features of the PADL pam_ldap module include support for transport layer security, SASL authentication, directory server-enforced password policy, and host- and group- based logon authorization. The present version…
pam_krb5 – Kerberos 5 authentication Description pam_krb5.so reads its configuration information from the appdefaults section of krb5.conf(5). You should read the krb5.conf(5) man page before continuing here. The module expects its configuration information to be in the pam subsection of the appdefaults section. Directives Directives which take a true, false, or a PAM service name…
pam_env.conf – the environment variables config file Description The /etc/security/pam_env.conf file specifies the environment variables to be set, unset or modified by pam_env(8). When someone logs in, this file is read and the environment variables are set according. Each line starts with the variable name, there are then two possible options for each variable DEFAULT…
pam_env.conf, environment – the environment variables config files Description The /etc/security/pam_env.conf file specifies the environment variables to be set, unset or modified by pam_env(8). When someone logs in, this file is read and the environment variables are set according. Each line starts with the variable name, there are then two possible options for each variable…
pam_afs_session – AFS PAG and token PAM module Synopsis auth optional pam_afs_session.so session required pam_afs_session.so Description The AFS session service module for PAM, typically installed at /lib/security/pam_afs_session.so, establishes new AFS sessions and obtains AFS tokens when a new session is opened for a user. It is a shared object that is dynamically loaded by the…
pam – portable arbitrary map file format Description The PAM image format is a lowest common denominator 2 dimensional map format. It is designed to be used for any of myriad kinds of graphics, but can theoretically be used for any kind of data that is arranged as a two dimensional rectangular array. Actually, from…