* man/newusers.8.xml: PAM enabled version: describe how passwords

are updated and how newusers behave in case of error.
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2009-05-11 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
* man/newusers.8.xml: PAM enabled version: describe how passwords
are updated and how newusers behave in case of error.
2009-05-10 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
* NEWS, configure.in: New release will be 4.1.4.

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databases. If an error occurs (except in the final writes to the
databases), no changes are committed to the databases.
</para>
<para condition="pam">
During this first pass, users are created with a locked password
(and passwords are not changed for the users which are not created).
A second pass is used to update the passwords using PAM. Failures
to update a password are reported, but will not stop the other
password updates.
</para>
<para>
This command is intended to be used in a large system environment
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The input file must be protected since it contains unencrypted
passwords.
</para>
<para condition="pam">
PAM is not used to update the passwords.
Only <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and
<filename>/etc/shadow</filename> are updated, and the various checks
or options provided by PAM modules are not used.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id='configuration'>