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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users How to allow particular user only to login as a root using "ssh" ? Post 302447455 by citaylor on Monday 23rd of August 2010 08:41:47 AM
Old 08-23-2010
What O/S are you running ? If it is Linux or Solaris (others may provide the same functionality) then you may be able to tweak the pam.conf to provide this functionality. (see pam_succeed_if.so and pam_deny.so for info)
 

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PAM_WARN(8)							 Linux-PAM Manual						       PAM_WARN(8)

NAME
pam_warn - PAM module which logs all PAM items if called SYNOPSIS
pam_warn.so DESCRIPTION
pam_warn is a PAM module that logs the service, terminal, user, remote user and remote host to syslog(3). The items are not probed for, but instead obtained from the standard PAM items. The module always returns PAM_IGNORE, indicating that it does not want to affect the authentication process. OPTIONS
This module does not recognise any options. MODULE TYPES PROVIDED
The auth, account, password and session module types are provided. RETURN VALUES
PAM_IGNORE This module always returns PAM_IGNORE. EXAMPLES
#%PAM-1.0 # # If we don't have config entries for a service, the # OTHER entries are used. To be secure, warn and deny # access to everything. other auth required pam_warn.so other auth required pam_deny.so other account required pam_warn.so other account required pam_deny.so other password required pam_warn.so other password required pam_deny.so other session required pam_warn.so other session required pam_deny.so SEE ALSO
pam.conf(5), pam.d(5), pam(7) AUTHOR
pam_warn was written by Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>. Linux-PAM Manual 06/04/2011 PAM_WARN(8)
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