aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/gnu/system/pam.scm
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/system/pam.scm')
-rw-r--r--gnu/system/pam.scm10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/system/pam.scm b/gnu/system/pam.scm
index 85f75517b1..ad02586be8 100644
--- a/gnu/system/pam.scm
+++ b/gnu/system/pam.scm
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -367,7 +367,13 @@ strings or string-valued gexps."
;; Arguments include <pam-service> as well as procedures.
(compose concatenate)
- (extend extend-configuration)))
+ (extend extend-configuration)
+ (description
+ "Configure the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) for all
+the specified @dfn{PAM services}. Each PAM service corresponds to a program,
+such as @command{login} or @command{sshd}, and specifies for instance how the
+program may authenticate users or what it should do when opening a new
+session.")))
(define* (pam-root-service base #:key (transform identity))
"The \"root\" PAM service, which collects <pam-service> instance and turns