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| author | Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> | 2021-01-25 11:12:01 -0800 |
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| committer | Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> | 2021-01-25 11:38:55 -0800 |
| commit | 634f57465048c698381513cdc2ee205d4f04e538 (patch) | |
| tree | 26e3d226a8cbe88a8b339e2c4416dfc6b4b17427 /README.md | |
| parent | 99ef2db47957ed986c945574e6133abab8d76d45 (diff) | |
Avoid using the word "whitelist"
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| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -430,11 +430,12 @@ information to the syslog. This step is only needed if you installed `fscrypt` from source code. Some Linux distros use restrictive settings in `/etc/pam.d/other` that prevent -non-whitelisted programs from checking your login passphrase. This prevents -`fscrypt` from creating any login passphrase-protected directories, even without -auto-unlocking. To ensure that `fscrypt` will work properly (if you didn't -install an official `fscrypt` package from your distro, which should have -already handled this), also create a file `/etc/pam.d/fscrypt` containing: +programs from checking your login passphrase unless a per-program PAM +configuration file grants access. This prevents `fscrypt` from creating any +login passphrase-protected directories, even without auto-unlocking. To ensure +that `fscrypt` will work properly (if you didn't install an official `fscrypt` +package from your distro, which should have already handled this), also create a +file `/etc/pam.d/fscrypt` containing: ``` auth required pam_unix.so ``` |