PAM-Modules
	A Collection of Modules for PAM	Sergey Poznyakoff

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6.1 Configuration File.

Configuration file has a simple line-oriented syntax. Empty lines and lines beginning with ‘#’ are ignored. Nonempty lines consist of a keyword and its value, separated by any amount of white space.

Long statements can be split over several lines by placing ‘\’ character at the end of each line, e.g.:

query select password \
      from users \
      where user_name='$user'

Basic configuration statements provide SQL credentials needed for accessing the database:

host hostname

Sets hostname or IP address of the machine where the database is running. If the database is only listening on the local socket (--skip-networking for MySQL, or lack of -i for PostgreSQL), then host should be the name of the local socket.

port number

Sets the SQL port number. This statement is optional. Use it only if your database is running on a port different from the standard.

db database

Sets database name.

login string

Sets SQL user name.

pass password

Sets SQL user password.

default-file file

Name of the MySQL default file, which should be consulted in order to obtain connection parameters and credentials. When specified, the keywords described above become optional.

default-group name

Name of the group in MySQL default file to use. Default is ‘mysql’. This keyword is meaningful only if default-file is given.