10-15-2012
If you disable all logins, how do you plan on logging on to perform maintenance, such as patching?
If you want to disable remote access, just don't run telnet or sshd.
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pam_deny
pam_deny(5) Standards, Environments, and Macros pam_deny(5)
NAME
pam_deny - PAM module to deny operations
SYNOPSIS
pam_deny.so.1
DESCRIPTION
The pam_deny module implements all the PAM service module functions and returns the module type default failure return code for all calls.
The following options are interpreted:
debug syslog(3C) debugging information at LOG_AUTH and LOG_DEBUG levels
ERRORS
The authentication service returns the following error codes:
PAM_ACCT_EXPIRED If pam_sm_acct_mgmt is called.
PAM_AUTH_ERR If pam_sm_authenticate is called.
PAM_AUTHOK_ERR If pam_sm_chauthtok is called.
PAM_CRED_ERR If pam_sm_setcred is called.
PAM_SESSION_ERR If pam_sm_open_session or pam_sm_close_session are called.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Disabling a specified service
The following example shows how to disable the service ssh-none authentication type:
sshd-none auth pam_deny.so.1
sshd-none account pam_deny.so.1
sshd-none session pam_deny.so.1
sshd-none password pam_deny.so.1
Example 2: Disabling all sevices
The following example shows how to disable all services that are not explicitly defined:
other auth pam_deny.so.1
other account pam_deny.so.1
other session pam_deny.so.1
other password pam_deny.so.1
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Evolving |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT Level |MT-Safe with exceptions |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
su(1M), libpam(3LIB), pam(3PAM), pam_sm_authenticate(3PAM), syslog(3C), pam.conf(4), nsswitch.conf(4), attributes(5), pam_authtok_check(5),
pam_authtok_get(5), pam_authtok_store(5), pam_dhkeys(5), pam_passwd_auth(5), pam_unix_account(5), pam_unix_auth(5), pam_unix_session(5),
privileges(5)
NOTES
The interfaces in libpam(3LIB) are MT-Safe only if each thread within the multi-threaded application uses its own PAM handle.
This module is intended to be used to either deny access to specific services names, or to all service names not specified (by specifying
pam_deny.so.1 as the default, "other", service stack).
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