The user database manages the security. It is currently only used by the configuration interface, but in the future all modules will have a 'may-configure' and 'may-access' field. User-made modules may also use it to get info about users or verify logins.

Variables

Password database request method
The database can be retrieved in a few different ways; file, ypcat or niscat

If set to 'file', the file named in the 'Password file' will be used. The format is as follows: user:cryptedpass:uid:gid:Real Name:/home/dir:shell, or, in other words, it is the standard UNIX passwd-file format.

If set to 'ypcat', use the yp (often called NIS for copyright reasons) method to retrieve the password database. If you can do 'ypcat passwd' on your system, you know that this is the method you should use.

If set to 'niscat', use the NIS+ method. This is probably only supported by Solaris 2.X. If 'niscat passwd.org_dir' works, this is the method you should use.

Password file
The file to use if Password database request method is set to file.

Turn }{| into едц.
If set, ISO-646 characters will be mapped to ISO-8859-1 characters in the Real Name field. This is probably only useful in Sweden. In the future, this will be replaced by multiple choices of decoding methods/charsets.

Strip finger information from fullname
If enabled, this will strip everything after the first ',' character from the GECOS field of the user database.