centos man page for pwhistory_helper

PWHISTORY_HELPER(8)						 Linux-PAM Manual					       PWHISTORY_HELPER(8)

NAME
       pwhistory_helper - Helper binary that transfers password hashes from passwd or shadow to opasswd

SYNOPSIS
       pwhistory_helper [...]

DESCRIPTION
       pwhistory_helper is a helper program for the pam_pwhistory module that transfers password hashes from passwd or shadow file to the opasswd
       file and checks a password supplied by user against the existing hashes in the opasswd file.

       The purpose of the helper is to enable tighter confinement of login and password changing services. The helper is thus called only when
       SELinux is enabled on the system.

       The interface of the helper - command line options, and input/output data format are internal to the pam_pwhistory module and it should not
       be called directly from applications.

SEE ALSO
       pam_pwhistory(8)

AUTHOR
       Written by Tomas Mraz based on the code originally in pam_pwhistory and pam_unix modules.

Linux-PAM Manual						    06/17/2014						       PWHISTORY_HELPER(8)