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  Use the authentication token previously obtained by another module that did the conversation with the application. If this token can not be obtained then the module will try to converse. This option can be used for stacking different modules that need to deal with the authentication tokens.

use_first_pass

  Use the authentication token previously obtained by another module that did the conversation with the application. If this token can not be obtained then the module will fail. This option can be used for stacking different modules that need to deal with the authentication tokens.

unknown_ok

  Do not return error when checking for a user that is not in the database. This can be used to stack more than one pam_userdb module that will check a username/password pair in more than a database.

key_only

  The username and password are concatenated together in the database hash as 'username-password' with a random value. if the concatenation of the username and password with a dash in the middle returns any result, the user is valid. this is useful in cases where the username may not be unique but the username and password pair are.

### 6.40.3. MODULE TYPES PROVIDED

The `auth` and `account` module types are provided.

### 6.40.4. RETURN VALUES

PAM_AUTH_ERR

  Authentication failure.

PAM_AUTHTOK_RECOVERY_ERR

  Authentication information cannot be recovered.

PAM_BUF_ERR

  Memory buffer error.

PAM_CONV_ERR

  Conversation failure.

PAM_SERVICE_ERR

  Error in service module.

PAM_SUCCESS

  Success.

PAM_USER_UNKNOWN

  User not known to the underlying authentication module.

### 6.40.5. EXAMPLES

    auth  sufficient pam_userdb.so icase db=/etc/dbtest

### 6.40.6. AUTHOR

pam_userdb was written by Cristian Gafton >gafton@redhat.com<.

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