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README

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 Status and Roadmap
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-The module is working for multi-user systems.  It does not support
+The module is working for multi-user systems. The primary mode of
-disconnected mode, for that there is another Yubico PAM module that
+operation is by doing online validation using a YubiKey validation
-stores the AES key on disk.
+service (such as the YubiCloud, or a private one configured using
+the 'url' parameter).
+
+In version 2.6, offline validation was also made possible through
+the use of HMAC-SHA1 Challenge-Response found in YubiKey 2.2 and
+later. This has introduced a currently mandatory dependency of
+libykpers-1 from the ykpersonalize package.
 
 The development community is co-ordinated via Google Code :
 
@@ -59,6 +65,11 @@ http://code.google.com/p/yubico-c-client/
 
 It in turn requires Curl, which you need to have installed.
 
+The new Challenge-Response offline authentication requires libykpers-1
+from the yubikey-personalization project :
+
+  http://code.google.com/p/yubikey-personalization/
+
 The build system uses Autoconf, to set up the build system run:
 
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+Ubuntu PPA
+----------
+
+There is an Ubuntu PPA (Private Package Archive) for yubico-pam that
+can be installed using the following commands on reasonably modern
+Ubuntu platforms :
+
+  $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fredrikt/yubico-pam
+  $ sudo apt-get update
+  $ sudo apt-get install yubico-pam
+
+You will have to configure pam_yubico manually in /etc/pam.d/common-auth
+manually after installing.
+
+
 Configuration
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