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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-15 17:36:47 +0000
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+Authentication Databases
+========================
+
+These databases can be used as both <password databases> [PasswordDatabase.txt]
+and <user databases> [UserDatabase.txt]:
+
+ * <Passwd> [AuthDatabase.Passwd.txt]: System users (NSS, '/etc/passwd', or
+ similiar)
+ * <Passwd-file> [AuthDatabase.PasswdFile.txt]: '/etc/passwd'-like file in
+ specified location
+ * <LDAP> [AuthDatabase.LDAP.txt]: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
+ * <SQL> [AuthDatabase.SQL.txt]: SQL database (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite)
+ * <Dict> [AuthDatabase.Dict.txt]: Dict key-value database (Redis, memcached,
+ etc.)
+ * <VPopMail> [AuthDatabase.VPopMail.txt]: External software used to handle
+ virtual domains
+ * <Lua> [AuthDatabase.Lua.txt]: Lua script for authentication (v2.3.0+)
+
+(This file was created from the wiki on 2019-06-19 12:42)