console.perms(5)					   System Administrator's Manual					  console.perms(5)

NAME

       console.perms - permissions control file for users at the system console

DESCRIPTION

       /etc/security/console.perms  determines	the permissions that will be given to priviledged users of the console at login time, and the per-
       missions to which to revert when the users log out.  It is read by the pam_console module.

       The format is:

       <class>=space-separated list of words

       login-regexp|<login-class> perm dev-glob|<dev-class> 
	       revert-mode revert-owner[.revert-group]

       The revert-mode, revert-owner, and revert-group fields are optional, and default to 0600, root, and root, respectively.

       The words in a class definition are evaluated as globs if they refer to files, but as regular expressions if they apply to a console  defi-
       nition.	Do not mix them.

       Any line can be broken and continued on the next line by using a  character as the last character on the line.

       The login-class class and the login-regexp word are evaluated as regular expressions.  The dev-class and the dev-glob word are evaluated as
       shell-style globs.  If a name given corresponds to a directory, and if it is a mount point listed in /etc/fstab, the device node associated
       with the filesystem mounted at that point will be substituted in its place.

       Classes	are  denoted  by  being contained in < angle bracket > characters; a lack of < angle brackets > indicates that the string is to be
       taken literally as a login-regexp or a dev-glob, depending on its input position.

SEE ALSO

       pam_console(8)
       pam_console_apply(8)
       console.apps(5)

AUTHOR

       Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>

Red Hat Software						     1999/2/3							  console.perms(5)