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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-07 14:22:51 +0000
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+pam_issue — PAM module to add issue file to user prompt
+
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+
+DESCRIPTION
+
+pam_issue is a PAM module to prepend an issue file to the username prompt. It
+also by default parses escape codes in the issue file similar to some common
+getty's (using \x format).
+
+Recognized escapes:
+
+\d
+
+ current day
+
+\l
+
+ name of this tty
+
+\m
+
+ machine architecture (uname -m)
+
+\n
+
+ machine's network node hostname (uname -n)
+
+\o
+
+ domain name of this system
+
+\r
+
+ release number of operating system (uname -r)
+
+\t
+
+ current time
+
+\s
+
+ operating system name (uname -s)
+
+\u
+
+ number of users currently logged in
+
+\U
+
+ same as \u except it is suffixed with "user" or "users" (eg. "1 user" or
+ "10 users")
+
+\v
+
+ operating system version and build date (uname -v)
+
+OPTIONS
+
+noesc
+
+ Turns off escape code parsing.
+
+issue=issue-file-name
+
+ The file to output if not using the default.
+
+EXAMPLES
+
+Add the following line to /etc/pam.d/login to set the user specific issue at
+login:
+
+ auth optional pam_issue.so issue=/etc/issue
+
+
+AUTHOR
+
+pam_issue was written by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>.
+