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diff --git a/modules/pam_rootok/README b/modules/pam_rootok/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..55a4475 --- /dev/null +++ b/modules/pam_rootok/README @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +pam_rootok — Gain only root access + +━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ + +DESCRIPTION + +pam_rootok is a PAM module that authenticates the user if their UID is 0. +Applications that are created setuid-root generally retain the UID of the user +but run with the authority of an enhanced effective-UID. It is the real UID +that is checked. + +OPTIONS + +debug + + Print debug information. + +EXAMPLES + +In the case of the su(1) application the historical usage is to permit the +superuser to adopt the identity of a lesser user without the use of a password. +To obtain this behavior with PAM the following pair of lines are needed for the +corresponding entry in the /etc/pam.d/su configuration file: + +# su authentication. Root is granted access by default. +auth sufficient pam_rootok.so +auth required pam_unix.so + + +AUTHOR + +pam_rootok was written by Andrew G. Morgan, <morgan@kernel.org>. + diff --git a/modules/pam_rootok/README.xml b/modules/pam_rootok/README.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6fb58cd --- /dev/null +++ b/modules/pam_rootok/README.xml @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding='UTF-8'?> +<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" +"http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" +[ +<!-- +<!ENTITY pamaccess SYSTEM "pam_rootok.8.xml"> +--> +]> + +<article> + + <articleinfo> + + <title> + <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" + href="pam_rootok.8.xml" xpointer='xpointer(//refnamediv[@id = "pam_rootok-name"]/*)'/> + </title> + + </articleinfo> + + <section> + <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" + href="pam_rootok.8.xml" xpointer='xpointer(//refsect1[@id = "pam_rootok-description"]/*)'/> + </section> + + <section> + <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" + href="pam_rootok.8.xml" xpointer='xpointer(//refsect1[@id = "pam_rootok-options"]/*)'/> + </section> + + <section> + <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" + href="pam_rootok.8.xml" xpointer='xpointer(//refsect1[@id = "pam_rootok-examples"]/*)'/> + </section> + + <section> + <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" + href="pam_rootok.8.xml" xpointer='xpointer(//refsect1[@id = "pam_rootok-author"]/*)'/> + </section> + +</article> |