From 9ada0093e92388590c7368600ca4e9e3e376f0d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 16:22:51 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 1.5.2. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- modules/pam_wheel/README | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+) create mode 100644 modules/pam_wheel/README (limited to 'modules/pam_wheel/README') diff --git a/modules/pam_wheel/README b/modules/pam_wheel/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5dae4b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/modules/pam_wheel/README @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +pam_wheel — Only permit root access to members of group wheel + +━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ + +DESCRIPTION + +The pam_wheel PAM module is used to enforce the so-called wheel group. By +default it permits access to the target user if the applicant user is a member +of the wheel group. If no group with this name exist, the module is using the +group with the group-ID 0. + +OPTIONS + +debug + + Print debug information. + +deny + + Reverse the sense of the auth operation: if the user is trying to get UID 0 + access and is a member of the wheel group (or the group of the group + option), deny access. Conversely, if the user is not in the group, return + PAM_IGNORE (unless trust was also specified, in which case we return + PAM_SUCCESS). + +group=name + + Instead of checking the wheel or GID 0 groups, use the name group to + perform the authentication. + +root_only + + The check for wheel membership is done only when the target user UID is 0. + +trust + + The pam_wheel module will return PAM_SUCCESS instead of PAM_IGNORE if the + user is a member of the wheel group (thus with a little play stacking the + modules the wheel members may be able to su to root without being prompted + for a passwd). + +use_uid + + The check will be done against the real uid of the calling process, instead + of trying to obtain the user from the login session associated with the + terminal in use. + +EXAMPLES + +The root account gains access by default (rootok), only wheel members can +become root (wheel) but Unix authenticate non-root applicants. + +su auth sufficient pam_rootok.so +su auth required pam_wheel.so +su auth required pam_unix.so + + +AUTHOR + +pam_wheel was written by Cristian Gafton . + -- cgit v1.2.3