security/pam: fix description
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#!/bin/sh
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#!/bin/sh
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name="pam"
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name="pam"
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short_desc="Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules"
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short_desc="Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules"
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desc="libxcrypt is a modern library for one-way hashing of passwords. It supports a wide variety
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desc="Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) is a suite of libraries that allow a Linux system
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of both modern and historical hashing methods:
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administrator to configure methods to authenticate users.
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yescrypt, gost-yescrypt, scrypt, bcrypt, sha512crypt, sha256crypt, md5crypt, SunMD5, sha1crypt, NT, bsdicrypt,bigcrypt, and descrypt.
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It provides a flexible and centralized way to switch authentication methods for secured applications
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by using configuration files instead of changing application code. There are Linux PAM
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libraries allowing authentication using methods such as local passwords, LDAP, or fingerprint readers.
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It provides the traditional Unix crypt and crypt_r interfaces, as well as a set of extended
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Linux PAM is evolved from the Unix Pluggable Authentication Modules architecture."
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interfaces pioneered by Openwall Linux, crypt_rn, crypt_ra, crypt_gensalt, crypt_gensalt_rn, and crypt_gensalt_ra."
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category="security"
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category="security"
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version="1.5.3_1"
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version="1.5.3_1"
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version2="${version%%_*}"
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version2="${version%%_*}"
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