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PAM_LOCALUSER
Section: Linux\-PAM Manual (8) Updated: 04/01/2016 Index
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NAME
pam_localuser - require users to be listed in /etc/passwd
SYNOPSIS
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pam_localuser.so [debug] [file=/path/passwd]
DESCRIPTION
pam_localuser is a PAM module to help implementing site-wide login policies, where they typically include a subset of the network's users and a few accounts that are local to a particular workstation. Using pam_localuser and pam_wheel or pam_listfile is an effective way to restrict access to either local users and/or a subset of the network's users.
This could also be implemented using pam_listfile.so and a very short awk script invoked by cron, but it's common enough to have been separated out.
OPTIONS
debug
-
Print debug information.
file=/path/passwd
-
Use a file other than
/etc/passwd.
MODULE TYPES PROVIDED
All module types (account,
auth,
password
and
session) are provided.
RETURN VALUES
PAM_SUCCESS
-
The new localuser was set successfully.
PAM_SERVICE_ERR
-
No username was given.
PAM_USER_UNKNOWN
-
User not known.
EXAMPLES
Add the following line to
/etc/pam.d/su
to allow only local users in group wheel to use su.
-
account sufficient pam_localuser.so
account required pam_wheel.so
FILES
/etc/passwd
-
Local user account information.
SEE ALSO
pam.conf(5),
pam.d(5),
pam(8)
AUTHOR
pam_localuser was written by Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- MODULE TYPES PROVIDED
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- RETURN VALUES
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- EXAMPLES
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- FILES
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- SEE ALSO
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- AUTHOR
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