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| author |   schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2014-12-02 07:39:58 +0000 |
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| committer | schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2014-12-02 07:39:58 +0000 |
| commit | cdaa683c81a655c03567361d935d89cac7bc59a1 (patch) | |
| tree | 749e4292486e6c75d26a68451c830e2fcdfd5356 /lib/libc/crypt/crypt_checkpass.3 | |
| parent | zap extra parenthesis after recent rewrite (diff) | |
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macro cleanup; kaspars at bankovskis dot net
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/crypt/crypt_checkpass.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/crypt/crypt_checkpass.3 | 19 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/crypt/crypt_checkpass.3 b/lib/libc/crypt/crypt_checkpass.3 index fd60523502e..09f2d02796c 100644 --- a/lib/libc/crypt/crypt_checkpass.3 +++ b/lib/libc/crypt/crypt_checkpass.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: crypt_checkpass.3,v 1.4 2014/11/21 12:52:54 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: crypt_checkpass.3,v 1.5 2014/12/02 07:39:58 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2014 Ted Unangst <tedu@openbsd.org> .\" @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: November 21 2014 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: December 2 2014 $ .Dt CRYPT_CHECKPASS 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -31,10 +31,19 @@ The .Fn crypt_checkpass function is provided to simplify checking a user's password. -If both the hash and the password are the empty string, authentication +If both the +.Fa hash +and the +.Fa password +are the empty string, authentication is a success. -Otherwise, the password is hashed and compared to the provided hash. -If the hash is +Otherwise, the +.Fa password +is hashed and compared to the provided +.Fa hash . +If the +.Fa hash +is .Dv NULL , authentication will always fail, but a default amount of work is performed to simulate the hashing operation. |