From de848d9e9146434817c65d74d1d0313e9d729462 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 14:01:37 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 1.4.0. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- modules/pam_localuser/README | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+) create mode 100644 modules/pam_localuser/README (limited to 'modules/pam_localuser/README') diff --git a/modules/pam_localuser/README b/modules/pam_localuser/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e4c932c --- /dev/null +++ b/modules/pam_localuser/README @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +pam_localuser — require users to be listed in /etc/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. + +EXAMPLES + +Add the following lines to /etc/pam.d/su to allow only local users or group +wheel to use su. + +account sufficient pam_localuser.so +account required pam_wheel.so + + +AUTHOR + +pam_localuser was written by Nalin Dahyabhai . + -- cgit v1.2.3